Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said fugitive convict Tarique Rahman keeps hatching conspiracies against Bangladesh from a foreign land.

“As a fugitive, Tarique Zia lives outside Bangladesh but doesn’t stop conspiring inside the country. His conspiracies are going on. But we’ve been taking the country forward facing all the plots,” she said while addressing a civic reception here.

The Bangladeshi community living in France accorded the reception to the Prime Minister.

It is now proven correct that BNP high-ups were directly involved in the August-21 grenade attacks, said Hasina mentioning the subsequent remarks and activities of the BNP leaders after the attack.

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Tarique Zia is also convicted in the August 21 grenade attack case, she said.

At the function, the Prime Minister urged the expatriate Bangladeshis to invest in Bangladesh’s 100 special economic zones as the government offers special facilities for the expatriates there.

“We’re offering special facilities for our expatriates in the special economic zones. So, you need to invest there,” she said.

Hasina told the expatriates that they may get a good return of their investment in the economic zones as food crisis is there across the world due to the fallout of Covid-19 pandemic.

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She, however, said there is no scarcity of food in Bangladesh as she earlier directed not to keep a single inch of land uncultivated.

The Prime Minister also urged the expatriates to follow the rules and laws of the respective host countries where they stay in order to uphold Bangladesh’s image.