Hasina makes scathing criticism of Khaleda

In a scathing attack on the Zia family, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged her archrival BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to stop killing people and disgracing the country by weeping to others, reports UNB.

"I'll call upon the BNP chairperson to stop killing people and also to stop disgracing the country by weeping to others," she said.

Sheikh Hasina, also the President of the ruling Awami League, was addressing a discussion meeting marking the 65th founding anniversary of her party at the city's Suhrawardy Udyan in the afternoon.

Hasina said she could perceive the heartburns of those now talking rubbish. "She (Khaleda) didn't join the last election, but the election was held, and she's now crying to her foreign lords having failed to gain support from the country's people."

She went on saying, "AL never grabs the legs of the foreign lords, but takes the state ahead being empowered by the country's people."

About the BNP chairperson's recent claim that Hasina was behind the killing of Ziaur Rahman, the Prime Minister said, "Why we would kill Zia…I'll rather ask Khaleda where she was during the killing and what was her role then?"

In this connection, Hasina said, after long nine years in 1990 after the killing of Ziaur Rahman in 1981, Khaleda Zia all of a sudden at a function in the capital called HM Ershad her husband's killer although she enjoyed all facilities, including house, cars and money from the military ruler. "What's the mystery?"