Bill Gates came on a visit at Tarique Rahman's invitation: Shibly

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, reports BSS.

"The incumbent Prime Minister (PM) Tarique Rahman met Bill Gates in the United States in 2004 and invited him to visit Bangladesh. After that, Bill Gates came on a brief visit," he said.

The press secretary said this while speaking at a policy dialogue titled 'Building Bangladesh's Digital Future: Telecom, Data and Cyber Security Bill 2026', organised by Bangladesh ICT Stakeholders Alliance (BISA) at a club in the capital on Saturday evening.