...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
has said that the recent murders of the foreign nationals had been staged by a vested quarter to tarnish the country's image to the world.
She made the remarks at the Sylhet Osmani International Airport during her brief stay yesterday afternoon on her way back to Dhaka from the USA.
"When the country is on track to gain importance to other nations, a vested interest has been staging some unpleasant incidents in the country to tarnish the country's dignity.
"The countrymen and party [Awami League] activists should stay alert about the conspirators," the prime minister was quoted as saying by former Sylhet City Corporation mayor and ruling party leader Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran.