Trump-hater and financial associate of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Yunus was planted into the position of head of the government in Bangladesh by Biden-Kamala administration under active collaboration of Barack Obama, Clintons and Soros, through a meticulous plan with the nefarious goal of looting country’s natural and mineral resources while pushing the country into the grips of Islamists, jihadists, Caliphate-mongers, drug-barons and Pakistan’s infamous spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI).

Days after the August 5, 2024 regime change in the country which had forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee, top secret documents were leaked by ‘Grayzone’ news site that exposed how prior to the toppling of Hasina, US government-funded ‘International Republican Institute’ (IRI) trained an army of activists, including rappers and LGBTQ people, alongside hardened criminals and jihadists with the ulterior motive of implementing the power shift thus destabilizing Bangladesh’s politics.

On August 5, when Bangladesh Armed Forces under the leadership of General Waker Uz Zaman announced the imposition of a so-called ‘interim administration’ led by Muhammad Yunus, video footage showed Sheikh Hasina fleeing to India in a helicopter. As vast swarms of so-called student protesters overran the Prime Minister’s official residence, Western and a section of sold-out Indian media outlets and many of the progressive-leaning consumers cheered the rebellion, thus branding it as a decisive defeat of “fascism” and “restoration of democratic rule”. They even did not shy when flags of Al Qaeda, Islamic State (ISIS), Hamas and Hezbollah were publicly waved by the members of Hizb Ut Tahrir, Ansarullah Bangla Team (local franchise of Al Qaeda), pro-Caliphate Hefazat-e-Islam and other Islamist bigots under the garb of “jubilant protestors”.

It may be mentioned here that, Muhammad Yunus is a longtime Clinton Global Initiative fellow, one of the top-donors of Clinton Foundation and financial associated of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who was jointly given a Nobel Prize along with Grameen Bank, under heavy persuasion and frantic bids of Clintons for his “pioneering role in microcredit”, despite the fact, this lending process has been exposed by financial experts as dubious and trap that forces vulnerable poor females into victims of unending greed of Yunus. During an event organized by Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, while Yunus openly hailed the “meticulously designed” protest movement that thrust him into power, Sheikh Hasina repeatedly accused Biden administration and other mighty figures in the Democratic Party, including Clintons of plotting to remove her from power over her alleged refusal to allow a US military base in St Martin’s Island in Bangladesh, although Biden’s State Department had dismissed such allegation of US meddling as “laughable” with spokesperson Vedant Patel telling reporters that “any implication that the United States was involved in Sheikh Hasina’s resignation is absolutely false”.

But the Biden administration’s blueprint of ousting Sheikh Hasina was fully exposed by Grayzone which reviewed a series of documents proving the State Department was fully aware of the efforts by the International Republican Institute (IRI) to advance an explicit stated mission to “destabilize Bangladesh’s politics”. According to Grayzone, the documents are marked as “confidential and or privileged”.

IRI is a subsidiary of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which has fueled an array of regime change operations across the globe since it was conceived in the office of CIA Director William Casey over forty-one years ago. Prior to regime change in Bangladesh, it has earlier played a similar role in unseating Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Imran Khan, while it also has a project of toppling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and helping Indian National Congress (INC) leader Rahul Gandhi become head of the government. In IRI’s India plot, George Soros as well as mighty figures in the Democratic Party, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton played crucial roles.

To actualize the CIA’s secret plot of toppling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, INC boss Rahul Gandhi made several trips to the United States and few other countries where he secretly met IRI officials as well as Obama, Clintons and particularly Soros.

The uncovered files revealed how ​Pakistani ISI spent millions in the lead-up to Sheikh Hasina’s overthrow covertly coaching opposition forces and establishing a regime change network concentrated among Bangladesh’s urban youth. The institute’s frontline foot soldiers were rappers, ethnic minority leaders, LGBT activists hosting “transgender dance performances” in the presence of US embassy officials – all groomed to facilitate what the US intelligence cutout called a “power shift” in Bangladesh.

Several selected recruits of IRI were sent to Pakistan under direct collaboration of ISI for training on operating sniper rifles. Similarly, a large number of youths were given training on online tools for forming cyber regiment which would later dominate on social media platforms – particularly Facebook with the target of spreading disinformation propaganda targeting Sheikh Hasina and her government.

The conspiracy of toppling Sheikh Hasina began during summer of 2018 when thousands of “school children” took the streets of Dhaka city pressing demand for safer roads and stricter traffic rules following the incident of an unlicensed bus driver killing two high school students. The demonstrations grew despite heavy repressive methods applied by the government, while selected media outlets, including Qatar-based Al Jazeera made frantic bids in getting the protests further intensified and spread throughout Bangladesh. Several identified players belonging to IRI and Pakistani ISI began their own efforts in somehow shifting the protests of the young people to the anti-government movement. But such a conspiracy could not be succeeded due to smart moves which included the Hasina administration imposing much stringent laws on negligent driving. But this protest by school children became a source of encouragement to the younger generation in Bangladesh who later continued to hone their protest tactics – shutting down key traffic points. Months later, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), along with other Islamist, jihadist and pro-Caliphate elements, including Hizb Ut Tahrir and even Al Qaeda-linked Ansarullah Bangla Team (later renamed as Ansar Al Islam) as well as India and Hindu-hating Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI), platform of madrassa students and teachers continued protests targeting Sheikh Hasina under various pretenses. Most importantly, taking advantage of Hasina administration’s clear bias against Israel and Jews, some ultra-Islamist forces in the country intensified their pro-Islamist activities under the garb of pro-Palestine protests. It may be mentioned here that Sheikh Hasina and her party – Awami League along with other political forces and most of the media outlets in Bangladesh consider Israel as “enemy state” and Jews as “enemies of Allah”. Surprisingly, those notoriously anti-Semite media outlets in Bangladesh enjoy continuous patronization from the US and European missions in Dhaka, while US, UK and EU diplomats consider these media outlets as their best allies.

Following the August 5, 2024 military-backed coup in Bangladesh, political analysts pointed to the role of social media in whipping up anti-government sentiment and driving havoc in the streets of Dhaka city. Not surprisingly, the leaked IRI file emphasizes the importance of online training and message discipline in affecting political change.

While IRI maintains its office in Dhaka since 2003 with the declared slogan of helping “political parties, government officials, civil society, and marginalized groups in their advocacy for greater rights and representation”, the leaked document published by Grayzone make abundantly clear, it has funded and trained a wide-ranging shadow political structure, comprising NGOs, activist groups, politicians and even musical and visual artists, which can be deployed to stir up unrest if Bangladesh authorities refuse to act as per its required prescription.

IRI was greatly inspired with its regime change playbook following 2018 student protests in Bangladesh which took place in December. Subsequently, in 2019, IRI began conducting research to inform its “baseline assessment” of the country, which consisted of “48 group interviews and 13 individual interviews with 304 key informants”. According to document leaked by Grayzone, in the end, “IRI staff … identified over 170 domestic activists who would cooperate with it to destabilize Bangladesh’s politics”. This report was submitted by IRI to the US State Department.

In the document submitted by IRI, it is clearly shown that the activities of this organization in Bangladesh had significantly ramped up following Hasina’s 2018 “lopsided victory”.

IRI in the report also stated that Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had “failed to successfully mobilize” its supporters against Sheikh Hasina. It said, BNP’s attempts to “foment street movements” had floundered, and it remained “marginal”, leaving Awami League’s “power undiminished”. Nonetheless, IRI considered BNP to be “still the most possible party to drive a power shift in the future”.

According to leaked documents, the idea that this political change might be achieved via the ballot box, however, didn’t appear to be up for consideration. With BNP apparently too “violent, insular, rigid, and hierarchical” to win an election, IRI instead proposed a “broad-based social empowerment project that fostered and expanded citizen-centered, local and non-traditional forums for political engagement.” In other words, street mobilizations.

In a separate internal report titled “Social media, protest, and reform in Bangladesh’s digital era”, IRI’s fascination with street protests and online communication has been spelled out, which declares that Bangladeshi students “have again led the country’s most vibrant protest movements, with the help of a took their predecessors didn’t have: the internet”.

The report declared, “Moving forward, IRI intends to expand its work with college students across the country”. The document explains that Bangladeshi protesters successfully used social media to promote videos and “short documentaries” of their actions, and compel local and international media to cover the upheaval. For example, Facebook-streamed live videos of police breaking up protests “went viral and helped spread knowledge of the protests across the country”.

One of the most powerful viral moments arrived in the form of a protest anthem by Kureghor, which the IRI called “the biggest internet-based Bangladeshi music band”.

IRI staff noted they actively worked “to ensure Bangladesh’s young people have the knowledge and skills to wield online and off-line tools for change”, which helped them “to extract concessions” from elected officials.

The IRI also supported a variety of “socially conscious artists”, which it called “an underutilized actor” for regime change purposes. “While traditional [civil society organizations] face constant pressure, individual artists and activists are harder to suppress and can often reach a wider audience with their democratic and reformational messages”, the Institute pointed out.

But Washington’s propaganda efforts were not just left to individual artists. The IRI also wrote that it had identified three “marginalized communities” to serve as shock troops on wedge issues – “Biharis [stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh], plainland ethnic groups and LGBTI people”.

In total, between 2019 and 2020, “IRI issued 11 advocacy grants to artists, musicians, performers or organizations that created 225 art products addressing political and social issues”, which it claimed were “viewed nearly 400,000 times”.

Additionally, the Institute bragged that it “supported three civil society organizations (CSOs) from LGBTI, Bihari [stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh] and ethnic communities to train 77 activists and engage 326 citizens to develop 43 specific policy demands,” which were apparently “proposed before 65 government officials.”

Between October and December of 2020, the IRI hosted three separate “transgender dance performances” across the country. Per the report, “the goal of the performance was to build self-esteem in the transgender community and raise awareness on transgender issues among the local community and government officials”.

At the final performance, in Dhaka City, the US Embassy sent its “deputy consul general and deputy director of the Office for Democracy, Rights and Governance” to participate.

Finally, the IRI also carried out “community-specific quantitative and qualitative research”, which included “three focus group reports” and what it called “the largest published survey of LGBTI people in Bangladesh”.

In sum: “IRI’s program raised public awareness on social and political issues in Bangladesh and supported the public to challenge the status quo, which ultimately aims for power shift [sic] inside Bangladesh”.

In the US, Democratic Party politicians have traditionally scorned government support for visual artists, transgender dancers, and rappers. But when an opportunity to install a more US-friendly government arose, the DNC’s in-house regime change organ eagerly transformed its domestic cultural enemies into political foot soldiers.

In July 2024, Bangladeshi media celebrated a barrister and Bangla rap artist named Toufique Ahmed as an influential face and voice of the protest movement to topple Hasina, touting his offer of free legal support to protesters arrested during the demonstrations.

IRI documents reveal that Ahmed’s music has been directly subsidized by the US government. According to the Institute’s files, Ahmed “released the first of two music videos under IRI’s small grants program, “Tui Parish” (You Can Do It)”, in 2020.

The song explicitly targeted “youth with a message of perseverance in difficult times”, while encouraging “those who are committed to strengthen democracy in Bangladesh in every possible way, including protests and street movements”.

The lyrics of his second IRI-funded music video addressed “a variety of social issues in Bangladesh including rape, poverty and workers’ rights”. It was explicitly “designed to reveal social issues in Bangladesh and build up disappointment and even dissent to [the] government so as to call for social and political reforms”.

IRI was particularly proud of the fact that its Bangladesh “art program… contributed to American cultural diplomacy in Bangladesh”. By funding local hip-hop artists, “IRI promoted a uniquely American art form”, the group noted.

The US has a long history of weaponizing music for soft power purposes, stretching from the CIA’s co-optation of jazz in the 1950s to USAID’s deployment of anti-communist rappers as agents against Cuba’s present-day government.

During one of the IRI’s televised cultural programs, the host “introduced rapper Towfique Ahmed’s music video with a description of rap’s origin in the US”. The Institute boasted that “this message reached over 79,000 households” across the country.

Elsewhere, IRI noted approvingly that in interviews with Bangladeshis “who attended public exhibits or watched IRI’s programs on television”, it was clear that “public consumers of the media products understood the messages of the art”. These responses were said to demonstrate that IRI had moved close to its goal “to drive [a] power shift in Bangladesh through social and political reforms” that year. Effusive praise was heaped on the “non-traditional civic actors” it had trained in the country:

“They are neither solely an artist nor solely an activist; instead, they are functioning as a hybrid agent of change [emphasis added]. While cultural activism in Bangladesh may not directly influence policy change and improve institutional behavior alone, it can certainly shape the political debate, advance social dialogue and raise more public awareness on key issues”.

IRI’s internal documents make clear that the opposition BNP’s lack of popularity necessitated the US government’s infiltration of Bangladesh’s civil society. One IRI report suggested that without a multi-million-dollar cash injection from the US regime change apparatus, the BNP would remain trapped in a cycle of “vacillation between violence, boycott and participation”, and near-total rejection by voters.

The IRI’s 2020 final report is even more explicit, noting the BNP “has also failed to successfully mobilize opposition. Since the 2018 election, the BNP political strategy has shifted between boycotting and joining elections while trying to foment street movements against the government. None of these tactics have worked. The BNP remains marginal, and the AL’s power is undiminished. However, the BNP is still the most possible party to drive [a] power shift in the future”.

IRI was not the only DC-based player involved in efforts to oust the Awami League. According to Grayzone, an IRI writeup of a September 2019 meeting with BNP leadership notes the participation of a Senior Director for Blue Star Strategies, the controversial lobbying outfit which Hunter Biden helped convince to work on behalf of now-dissolved Ukrainian energy conglomerate Burisma. “The BNP has contracted with Blue Star Strategies”, the report notes, “to manage their communications and advocacy work with US-based policymakers and other key stakeholders”.

US officials have complained that Hasina’s Awami League relied on autocratic methods like vote rigging to compensate for its lack of public support. However, one leaked file related to a secret meeting between IRI and the BNP noted that the opposition party is “a persistent critic of IRI’s public opinion research”, as the figures “consistently” show “high approval ratings for the Awami League and negative ratings for the BNP.”

Elsewhere, a document obtained by Grayzone outlining IRI’s “Bangladesh Strategy 2021-22” acknowledges the BNP “faces external pressure, internal disarray, and declining popularity”. A party activist was quoted as saying BNP members and supporters were “in confusion about who is leading the party”, as it was “missing leadership”.

IRI went on to lament that the BNP “appears to be losing popularity” within an already dwindling base, and that even before COVID-19, its public rallies “were sparsely attended”. Perhaps this is why “political party strengthening” was listed first under a section of an IRI document entitled, “Priority Areas of Work for IRI”.

IRI’s Bangladesh wing would “emphasize the need for support in advance of the next general elections”, while “[steering] away from traditional pre-election activities.” More music videos and art gallery shows were on the way, apparently.

Without any sense of irony, the IRI report concluded by warning of foreign interference in Bangladesh’s internal politics: “predictably, the [Awami League] and Sheikh Hasina would seek re-election by all means under the support of India”.

As if to justify its own meddling in Bangladesh, the IRI insisted it was “necessary to counterbalance interference from regional powers” in the vote, which went ahead in January 2024.

The Awami League wound up winning the election in a landslide, while the BNP boycotted the vote, despite overt State Department attempts to compel their participation.

Before the August 2024 coup, Hasina had complained for years about US demands to construct military facilities in the country as part of Washington’s broader Indo-Pacific Strategy of “containing” China.

Refusing to acquiesce to Washington’s pressure, Hasina remained close with India.

In May 2024, just days after meeting with Donald Liu, the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia, Sheikh Hasina warned that a “country of white-skinned people” had demanded she allow the installation of a military base in the Bay of Bengal. She apparently declined, telling legislators: “I do not want to come to power by leasing out parts of the country or handing it over to someone else”.

Similar obstinance led to the undoing of Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of neighboring Pakistan, who was removed from power in an April 2022 military coup backed by the US.

As economist Jeffrey Sachs noted, “the very strong evidence of the US role in toppling the government of Imran Khan raises the likelihood that something similar may have occurred in Bangladesh”.

With the pesky Hasina government and her Awami League now out of the picture, Washington’s preferred political leaders have taken on the task of dividing up the country and punishing dissidents – like the 150 journalists who’ve been charged since August 4. As Dhaka descends into chaos, with roving BNP gangs engaging in street battles for control of territory, a so-called “interim government” has emerged. It has already granted sweeping police powers to the military, and while it initially claimed to seek power for just a handful of months, one report in The Guardian estimates the unelected new regime could maintain control of the country for “up to five or six years”​.

Leading the new government is Muhammad Yunus. A close associate of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Yunus received a Nobel Prize in 2006 for pioneering the concept of “microlending”, a piratical form of legalized loansharking that has impoverished and immiserated swaths of the Indian subcontinent ever since.

During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, Yunus was shielded from prosecution in Bangladesh for corrupt business dealings, and simultaneously showered with millions in US government contracts. Hillary Clinton also threatened Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy with an IRS audit unless the Bangladeshi leader dropped an official probe into Grameen Bank, a microlender Yunus founded.

US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks confirm multiple covert contacts between Yunus and US officials over the years, and reveal a favorable view of the predatory lender prevailed in American halls of power.

Standing alongside Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative this September, Yunus publicly boasted that the seemingly spontaneous “revolution” that toppled Hasina had actually been “meticulously-designed”.

“It’s not just [that it] suddenly came, it’s not like that”. Instead, it was “very well designed, even the leadership – people don’t know who the leaders are, so you can’t catch one and say, ‘it’s over.’ It’s not over”.

Yunus is not the only new Bangladeshi leader with clear ties to Washington. In 2021, his foreign minister, Touhid Hossain, served as a “featured guest presenter” at a USAID workshop which trained Bangladeshi reporters on “countering misinformation”.

Within hours of Sheikh Hasina’s flight from the country, Bangladesh’s new leaders ordered the release of BNP leader Khaleda Zia, who was serving a 17-year prison sentence for corruption. If Yunus ultimately does decide to cede power, the BNP now appears poised to inherit leadership. That’s because, with the Awami League practically banished from Bangladeshi politics, the once-flailing BNP has become the only possible alternative.

Following ouster of Sheikh Hasina, although most of the analysts in Bangladesh were seeing prospects of the return of BNP to power as “inevitable”, where Crisis Group in a report stated, “If an election were to occur tomorrow, the BNP … would probably emerge victorious”, situation is gradually moving against BNP as most of its leaders and activists are indulged into rampant crimes that include extortion, land grabbing, atrocity on Hindus and forcing Hindus, Christians and religious minorities is selling their properties as a throw-away price and migrate to India.

At the same time, Muhammad Yunus has most definitely entered an extremely turbulent future, with Donald Trump’s victory. While on September 26, 2024, Yunus at a business luncheon in an upscale New York hotel signaled that the country was once again open for business, assuring the assembled foreign investors stating, “As the US looks for its supply-chain diversification under its Indo-China Policy, Bangladesh is strategically positioned to become a significant partner in fulfilling that goal”, there is no sign of any investment from entrepreneurs from the United States or any other country, whereas the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has withheld the payment of this fourth instalment of loans because of unknown reasons. Earlier allegations of misappropriation of IMF loans were ​r​aised against the Yunus regime, where some of the media outlets even accused the IMF fund being used behind the formation of ​​a new political party by Muhammad Yunus.

Things have turned further worse for Yunus following the January 20 inauguration of President Trump and a high-powered delegation of Pakistani spy agency Inter-Service Agency (ISI) visiting Bangladesh.

According to information, on January 21, ISI chief landed in Bangladesh via Emirates Airlines flight number EK-586 and was received from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) by a senior officer of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI). Other members of the ISI delegation are: Major General Shahid Afsar (Passport number LL-1510010), Brigadier General Alam Amir Awan (Passport number AP-1608918), Brigadier General Muhammad Asim (Passport number DN-1853599) and Lieutenant Colonel Usman Latif Khalid (Passport number CB-9495684).

Some sources claim, the Brigadier General Muhammad Asim is actually Lieutenant General Asim Malik, Director General of ISI, while others say, the DG, ISI landed in Dhaka by EK-686 at 5:21 PM Dhaka time and left the country by EK-685 flight at 01:00 am on January 22 thus leaving other members of the team in Bangladesh on some “important mission”.

It may be mentioned here that, under direct patronization of Yunus regime, Pakistani ISI began collaborating with the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in re​-establishing at least three bases within Kasalong Reserve Forest area alongside the Masalong river in Bangladesh. Part of the area falls under Baghaichari upazila and Dighinallah. Two undercover ISI officers (both Colonels) are coordinating this operation.

It also is learnt from a credible source that since September last year, ULFA kingpin Paresh Baruah ​​landed in Bangladesh.

Earlier media reports claimed, following the Pakistan visit of Lt Gen Kamrul Hasan, Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division, Pakistan Army is in the process of taking full control of Bangladesh Ordnance Factory, which manufactures ammunition of various calibers.

Defense experts say, historically, the Bangladesh Ordnance Factory has been a well-maintained and self-sufficient institution, meeting the demands of the Bangladesh Armed Forces (BAF) with its production capabilities. It has also collaborated with global powers to enhance its production capacity. A significant portion of the arms and ammunition used by the BAF are manufactured domestically by this factory. Therefore, its collaboration with Pakistan carries deeper implications that warrant further analysis.

It is also claimed by media reports that under the garb of producing ammunition, Pakistan Army may produce various types of explosives, while it will produce ‘Shahin-2’ prototype missile in Bangladesh. Since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, several pro-Pakistan academics and defense experts in Bangladesh have been consistently calling upon Muhammad Yunus to build nuclear capabilities under collaboration with Pakistan.

As Yunus regime lifted provisions of mandatory inspection of any commodity arriving from abroad – only for anything arriving from Pakistan, Islamabad might have already started sending required materials for sensitive military hardware including Long-Range Ballistic Missiles, as Pakistan is vigorously working in using Bangladesh as terror launchpad with the dangerous plot of destabilizing India and helping various separatist groups.

​The latest development of Bangladesh Army handing over the Bangladesh Ordnance Factory to Pakistan Army and the allegations of building prototype of Pakistani ICBM ‘Shahin-2’ in Bangladesh is not only a matter of gravest concern, such actions may ultimately put Bangladesh under stricter international sanctions, including ban of Bangladesh’s participating in the UN Peace Mission.

While Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Soros, Bill and Hillary Clinton jointly have pushed Bangladesh into alarming chaos thus turning the country into safe haven for Islamists, jihadists, Caliphate-mongers, drug-barons and criminals, Pakistani ISI visibly is advancing its nefarious plot of ultimately establishing its absolute control on the country and continue its terrorist-plots targeting India and possibly other neighboring nations. This is truly an alarming matter for the entire region.

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