'Bill Gates visited Bangladesh at Tarique Rahman's invitation'

Prime Minister’s Press Secretary AAM Saleh Shibly has said that Microsoft founder Bill Gates visited Bangladesh on a brief trip in 2004 at the invitation of Tarique Rahman.

While speaking at a policy dialogue at a club in the capital on Saturday evening, The press secretary said, ''The incumbent Prime Minister Tarique Rahman met Bill Gates in the United States in 2004 and invited him to visit Bangladesh.''

“The Prime Minister always says, ‘we may have differences of opinion, but we wanted a democratic state’. But in the past few days, the kind of language being used online by a group to criticize is not the language of people,” Shibly said, adding, using abusive language is not freedom of speech.