Bangladeshi media is rife with rumours of an army coup, and with it has come the revelation of a big betrayal.

In a yet-to-be-released book, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has not just called the power transfer a “perfect CIA plot" but alleged that Bangladesh army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman – a relative of Hasina – is “in its (CIA’s) pockets" and “backstabbed" her.

The bombshell revelation has been made in the book, Inshallah Bangladesh: The Story of an Unfinished Revolution written by Deep Halder, Jaideep Mazumdar and Sahidul Hasan Khokon and published by Juggernaut.

WAKER ‘IN CIA’s POCKETS’

The conversation took place at an unidentified hotel’s coffee shop in central Delhi on a June morning.

“It was a perfect CIA [Central Intelligence Agen

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