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Spooks 'n Sprouts :An ex-RAW chief lays bare the intrigue-ridden Indira years Saikat Datta K.S. Nair, a founder-member of RAW, saw it all: The Nepal king offered asylum to Rajiv Gandhi and his family after Indira lost the elections $6 million paid into a Swiss account to...

The scoop on external intelligence The Kaoboys of R&AW, which records the role of India's external intelligence agency over three decades, is replete with material that should force a re-assessment of intelligence operations by policy-makers and political leaders, says K S Subramanian...

GUJARAT 2002 / Conspirators & Rioters :A Cold Eclipse ASHISH KHETAN There were the cool strategists — leaders, officials, ideologues. And then there were the foot soldiers, who raped, killed and looted. The genocide was clinical THERE WAS no spontaneity to what happened in Gujarat...

Our Intelligence Set-Up Suits a Totalitarian State’ – Retired R&AW Official Retired R&AW officer Major General VK Singh, who is being hounded for his book on his tenure in the agency, tells Indian based weekly the Tehelka, that he should be treated like a whistle-blower Q:Do you regret...

You need informations to comment, no ?: RAW official denies Chinese link A Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official, who has been recalled from Sri Lanka for his suspected connection with a foreigner woman, on yesterday, Sunday, denied the allegation. When asked about media reports...

No Treason, Just Cold Reason :V.K. Singh raises many issues. If addressed, they should make RAW a better intelligence agency. Here are the "secrets" that Singh revealed in his book about the functioning of RAW: PM's Security: According to Singh, the communication system used by the...

OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT Outlook scooped V.K. Singh's expose on RAW. Now, he's booked under the Official Secrets Act. Is this act meant for misuse? Has several vague, "all-inclusive" provisions; anyone can be prosecuted for sharing even harmless information What is "secret" has not been defined...

The Order of Battle of the ISI Director General Deputy Director Generals Counter Intelligence Public Affairs & Services External Political Joint Intelligence Director Finance Technical North East India One aspect, however, which must be kept in mind, is the tendency among a section...

Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (also Inter-Services Intelligence or I.S.I.) is the principal intelligence body of the nation of Pakistan. The ISI provided most of the operational and organizational leadership during the U.S.-funded...

Directorate General for Inter-Services Intelligence The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] was founded in 1948 by a British army officer, Maj Gen R Cawthome, then Deputy Chief of Staff in Pakistan Army. Field Marshal Ayub Khan, the president of Pakistan in the 1950s, expanded...

Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] was founded in 1948 by a British army officer, Maj Gen R Cawthome, then Deputy Chief of Staff in Pakistan Army. Field Marshal Ayub Khan, the president of Pakistan in the 1950s, expanded the role of ISI in...

Pak Army upgrading 'ISI's North wing' Jammu, Contrary to Islamabad's claims of doing its best in the global war on terror, the Pakistan Army is said to have upgraded the north wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to 'ISI India-Bangladesh' in order to spread militancy across India...

The Spy Master and his Kaoboys Col R Hariharan (Retd.) After working for 28 years in Military Intelligence, I realised that MI was like a mistress to be coveted and courted in privacy and ignored in public by the commanders. But after reading B Raman's 'The Kaoboys of the R&AW' - an...

The pain of losing a nation By Sudheer Sharma On the northern corner of West Bengal state of India , there is a hill station-- Kalimpong, which once hosted celebrities from all over the world. The hill town, where most of the settlers are of Nepali origin, no longer retains its old...

'Bangladesh Should Merge With India' A member of the International Scientific Committee of the World Centre for Studies and Researches on The Green Book, says that there is a call for Bangladesh to merge with India in order to save it. He said that Bangladesh faces no future as it will...

No room to pay homage to Arora An article in an Indian magazine 'Frontline' (Volume 22 - Issue 13, Jun 18 - Jul 01, 2005, http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2213/stori...01001405300.htm ) , contributed by a Bangladeshi journalist Haroon Habib,under the caption 'Homage to a hero' drew my...

When East Pakistan Became Bangladesh BY SULTAN REZA The Fall of Dhaka was sudden and abrupt. As late as December 15th 1971, my pro-Pakistan friends kept saying that the Seventh Fleet of the US Navy was on its way and as soon as it reaches the Indian Ocean, India and it’s ally Russia would...

My dad Brigadier (Retd) Akhter Hamid Khan was sent to East Pakistan in 1971 to fight Sk. Muibur Rahman- An Appeal to Shabbir Bashar Bhai Sahab Akhter Javed Khan, Pakistan I have been surfing NFB since last six months. I have never written in a media or public forum before. I was born in...

Skewing the history of rape in 1971 A prescription for reconciliation? Nayanika Mookherjee runs a critical eye over Sarmila Bose's controversial analysis of the violence committed during the Liberation War This is a discussion of Sarmila Bose's article: "Anatomy of Violence: Analysis of...

Violation of Human Rights and Genocide in Bangladesh It was the night between March 25 and 26, 1971; it was the grisliest night the Bengali nation has ever known. The forces of evil let loose by the Army rulers of Pakistan continued, for nine months at a stretch, the holocaust begun on March...