Featured Indian Investigative Reporter Exposes RAW's Covert Ops Against Neighbors

[RiazHaq]

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2020/08/indian-investigative-reporter-exposes.html

In a new book titled "RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations", Indian investigative journalist Yatish Yadav has essentially confirmed some of what India's neighbors have suspected for a long time. Yadav has added to the revelations contained in a earlier book titled "Mission R&AW" written by ex Indian spy RK Yadav.


Indian RAW in Afghanistan:

Yatish Yadav has revealed that Indian intelligence recruited three top Afghan leaders, including Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Masood, in 1990s. Two other leaders, not named by Yadav, are still active in Afghan politics. The Americans knew about RAW's activities in Afghanistan. Although it is not clearly stated in the book, it appears that Indian intelligence continues to have its assets at the highest levels of the government in Kabul. One India's Afghan assets that is still active but not been named is most likely Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's current "Chief Executive". Abdullah has close ties with New Delhi. Members of his immediate family live in India.

Here's an excerpt of the book about Afghanistan:

"R&AW also created immense goodwill in many countries; it helped a top Afghan politician and former warlord to escape the Taliban and even got his relative a job in Turkey. R&AW spooks relentlessly bribed, cajoled and blackmailed India’s enemies".

RAW Vs Pakistan:

Yatish Yadav confirms what is already well known: India had carved Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. Indian intelligence continued its covert actions in Bangladesh after its creation. Here's an excerpt of the book, as published in the Indian media:

"Set in the turbulent ’70s to the ’90s, R&AW spooks toppled dictators like General Ershad in Bangladesh and Fiji’s Colonel Rabuka by organising public protests and trading loyalties of people in their inner circles respectively.

Although the book makes no reference to it, Indian agent Kulbhushan Jhadav's arrest in Balochistan has confirmed that RAW agents, based in Afghanistan and Iran, are actively carrying out violent covert ops in Pakistan.

There are 4,000 Indians working in Chabahar, Iran, according to Indian journalist Karan Thapar. Some of them, like Kulbhushan Jadhav, work undercover for Indian intelligence agency RAW. It is hard to believe that the Iranian intelligence is not aware of the presence of undercover Indian agents among the 4,000 Indians working in Chabahar. After all, Jadhav had two passports, one in his own name and another in the name of Hussein Mubarak Patel. The Indian Express and Asian Age, both Indian publications, suggest that Jadhav had links with Uzair Baloch who has been convicted by for working for the Iranian intelligence in Pakistan. Kulbhushan Jadhav has confessed to orchestrating deadly terror attacks in Balochistan and Karachi. He has said that India's RAW funneled money through Indian consulates in Jalalabad, Kandhar (Afghanistan) and Zahidan (Iran) to BLA and TTP for terror attacks in Balochistan and Karachi. Targets of terror attacks included people, mosques, roads, port and Balochistan's Hazara Shia community.

RAW in Sri Lanka:

The book claims that RAW fueled the conflict in Sri Lanka by playing both sides. Here's an excerpt:

"In Sri Lanka, R&AW played a double game, helping the Sri Lankan Army to destroy the LTTE while protecting Indian assets against the Tigers and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s hit men. According to a R&AW spymaster in Colombo, MEA bungled and allowed the Chinese to get a foothold in the island. Avinash Sinha arrived at Colombo Fort Café on the morning of 3 December 2005, looking forward to what he had been told was the best Sri Lankan breakfast in the city. Avinash, a R&AW operative, perhaps a few autumns younger than Kosala Ratnayake, had returned to Colombo that October after three years. He had recruited Kosala, a top functionary in the Sri Lankan government, over several wet evenings in January 2002. That was when the Sri Lankan regime had been seriously engaging with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for peace talks".

Summary:

Indian investigative reporter Yatish Yadav's "RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations" confirms what many of India's neighbors and long known and experienced: Indian intelligence agency RAW sabotages and subverts governments through its proxies and its assets in neighboring countries. India promotes and exacerbates local grievances to overthrow governments and break up nations. Yatish Yadav says "R&AW spooks relentlessly bribed, cajoled and blackmailed India’s enemies".

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[Rank]

 

[cloud4000]

The ISI doesn’t do the same? Hope we see a similar book on ISI by a Pakistani journalist, but I think I have a better chance of winning the lottery.

 

[RiazHaq]

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Amid rising tensions with India, China last week held a quadrilateral meeting with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal to discuss coordination on Covid-19 response and boosting economic recovery.

The meeting was chaired by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and attended by Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar, Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali and Pakistan’s Economic Affairs Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar through video conference.

The conference comes a month after Indian and Chinese troops clashed in Galwan, resulting in the death of 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese casualties. Both the countries have been involved in disengagement talks, but bilateral relations have worsened in recent days.

Wang, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry, said that the countries should consolidate the consensus on solidarity against Covid-19 and reject politicisation of coronavirus. He also said that the four countries should continue to promote the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, explore ways to synergise the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Trans-Himalayan Multi-Dimensional Connectivity Network.

Wang proposed that the attending countries also support the extension of the CPEC to Afghanistan, and create a regional network of connectivity.

Experts told HuffPost India that the meeting was a clear signal that China wants to encircle India.

 

[SQ8]

The ISI doesn’t do the same? Hope we see a similar book on ISI by a Pakistani journalist, but I think I have a better chance of winning the lottery.

That’s a covert intelligence agencies job.. what makes them good or bad is having such stories leak.

 

[Syed1.]

The ISI doesn’t do the same? Hope we see a similar book on ISI by a Pakistani journalist, but I think I have a better chance of winning the lottery.

Won't be very covert if journalists are publishing books on it. Says alot about RAW tbh.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Won't be very covert if journalists are publishing books on it. Says alot about RAW tbh.

It says practically nothing. What this book reveals is tip of the iceberg. It hasn't even revealed the names of RAW's major enemies.

What proves the capability of an agency are the results. ISI has been trying to take Kashmir for 70 years without anything to show. Rather it destroyed it's country in the process. It is still doing experimentations after numerous strategies failed.

Says a lot about ISI tbh.

Why is it hard to understand that international image of invincibility, tiny pinpricks, petty incidents, a blast here or a shooting of planes there are all trivial in larger scheme of things?

- PRTP GWD

 

[achhu]

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2020/08/indian-investigative-reporter-exposes.html

In a new book titled "RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations", Indian investigative journalist Yatish Yadav has essentially confirmed some of what India's neighbors have suspected for a long time. Yadav has added to the revelations contained in a earlier book titled "Mission R&AW" written by ex Indian spy RK Yadav.


Indian RAW in Afghanistan:

Yatish Yadav has revealed that Indian intelligence recruited three top Afghan leaders, including Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Masood, in 1990s. Two other leaders, not named by Yadav, are still active in Afghan politics. The Americans knew about RAW's activities in Afghanistan. Although it is not clearly stated in the book, it appears that Indian intelligence continues to have its assets at the highest levels of the government in Kabul. One India's Afghan assets that is still active but not been named is most likely Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's current "Chief Executive". Abdullah has close ties with New Delhi. Members of his immediate family live in India.

Here's an excerpt of the book about Afghanistan:

"R&AW also created immense goodwill in many countries; it helped a top Afghan politician and former warlord to escape the Taliban and even got his relative a job in Turkey. R&AW spooks relentlessly bribed, cajoled and blackmailed India’s enemies".

RAW Vs Pakistan:

Yatish Yadav confirms what is already well known: India had carved Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. Indian intelligence continued its covert actions in Bangladesh after its creation. Here's an excerpt of the book, as published in the Indian media:

"Set in the turbulent ’70s to the ’90s, R&AW spooks toppled dictators like General Ershad in Bangladesh and Fiji’s Colonel Rabuka by organising public protests and trading loyalties of people in their inner circles respectively.

Although the book makes no reference to it, Indian agent Kulbhushan Jhadav's arrest in Balochistan has confirmed that RAW agents, based in Afghanistan and Iran, are actively carrying out violent covert ops in Pakistan.

There are 4,000 Indians working in Chabahar, Iran, according to Indian journalist Karan Thapar. Some of them, like Kulbhushan Jadhav, work undercover for Indian intelligence agency RAW. It is hard to believe that the Iranian intelligence is not aware of the presence of undercover Indian agents among the 4,000 Indians working in Chabahar. After all, Jadhav had two passports, one in his own name and another in the name of Hussein Mubarak Patel. The Indian Express and Asian Age, both Indian publications, suggest that Jadhav had links with Uzair Baloch who has been convicted by for working for the Iranian intelligence in Pakistan. Kulbhushan Jadhav has confessed to orchestrating deadly terror attacks in Balochistan and Karachi. He has said that India's RAW funneled money through Indian consulates in Jalalabad, Kandhar (Afghanistan) and Zahidan (Iran) to BLA and TTP for terror attacks in Balochistan and Karachi. Targets of terror attacks included people, mosques, roads, port and Balochistan's Hazara Shia community.

RAW in Sri Lanka:

The book claims that RAW fueled the conflict in Sri Lanka by playing both sides. Here's an excerpt:

"In Sri Lanka, R&AW played a double game, helping the Sri Lankan Army to destroy the LTTE while protecting Indian assets against the Tigers and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s hit men. According to a R&AW spymaster in Colombo, MEA bungled and allowed the Chinese to get a foothold in the island. Avinash Sinha arrived at Colombo Fort Café on the morning of 3 December 2005, looking forward to what he had been told was the best Sri Lankan breakfast in the city. Avinash, a R&AW operative, perhaps a few autumns younger than Kosala Ratnayake, had returned to Colombo that October after three years. He had recruited Kosala, a top functionary in the Sri Lankan government, over several wet evenings in January 2002. That was when the Sri Lankan regime had been seriously engaging with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for peace talks".

Summary:

Indian investigative reporter Yatish Yadav's "RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations" confirms what many of India's neighbors and long known and experienced: Indian intelligence agency RAW sabotages and subverts governments through its proxies and its assets in neighboring countries. India promotes and exacerbates local grievances to overthrow governments and break up nations. Yatish Yadav says "R&AW spooks relentlessly bribed, cajoled and blackmailed India’s enemies".

Related Links:

Haq's Musings

South Asia Investor Review

India-Iran-Afghanistan Axis Against Pakistan

Ex Indian Spy Reveals RAW's Successes Against Pakistan

Pakistan Helped Sri Lanka Defeat LTTE Created By RAW

Has Modi Stepped Up India's Cover War Against Pakistan?

Pakistan's Political and Military Policy Response to Peshawar Attack

Taliban or RAW-liban?

Respecting Rights of Fellow Humans: Huqooq ul Ibad in Islam

Counter-insurgencyOperation ZarbeAzb

India's Abiding Hostility Toward Pakistan

India's Israel Envy: Will Modi Attack Pakistan?

Who Killed Karkare?

CFR's View of the Taliban

Rising Religious Intolerance Threatens Pakistan's Future

Rise and Fall of Islamic Civilization

The Prophet I Know

Quaid-e-Azam Vision of Pakistan Inspired by Misaq-e-Madina


https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2020/08/indian-investigative-reporter-exposes.html

well i thought they are not doing their job .

 

[achhu]

It says practically nothing. What this book reveals is tip of the iceberg. It hasn't even revealed the names of RAW's major enemies.

What proves the capability of an agency are the results. ISI has been trying to take Kashmir for 70 years without anything to show. Rather it destroyed it's country in the process. It is still doing experimentations after numerous strategies failed.

Says a lot about ISI tbh.

Why is it hard to understand that international image of invincibility, tiny pinpricks, petty incidents, a blast here or a shooting of planes there are all trivial in larger scheme of things?

- PRTP GWD

sir ISI has defeated two super powers alone . ask russia and Americans .

 

[achhu]

Won't be very covert if journalists are publishing books on it. Says alot about RAW tbh.

you are right books should not be written about agencies.if agency is efficient .but few countries give freedom to journalists to write ¹books. books have been written sbout kgb, cia , mossd .

 

[Baba_Yaga]

That’s a covert intelligence agencies job.. what makes them good or bad is having such stories leak.

How do you know any information has leaked and that these stories are not by definition, just stories - figments of his imagination ? I could write a book that ISI did this and that, how hard is it to do that?

Basically he used common knowledge that India has never denied, that RAW supported Mukti Bahini, Northern Alliance and LTTE, made up detailed events using rumors and his own imagination and voila you have a book. No different than the titanic movie - take a well known event, add a fanciful story about an aristocrat women and a lower class man falling in love and you have a blockbuster.

 

[cloud4000]

Won't be very covert if journalists are publishing books on it. Says alot about RAW tbh.

That's one way to look at it. But India and other democracies have their intelligence agencies under firm political oversight, which includes declassification of intelligence after a certain time period has elapsed. People have the right to know what their intelligence agencies are up to.

 

[RiazHaq]

you are right books should not be written about agencies.if agency is efficient .but few countries give freedom to journalists to write ¹books. books have been written sbout kgb, cia , mossd .

All these books are heavily vetted. You don't see any reference to RAW"s ongoing covert ops in Pakistan, for example. Nor any mention of Kulbhushan Jadahav and RAW's work in Chabahar whose only aim is to destabilize Pakistan. There are 4,000 Indians working in Chabahar; many of them are undercover like Kulbhushan.

https://www.riazhaq.com/2020/07/india-iran-afghanistan-axis-against.html

 

[achhu]

All these books are heavily vetted. You don't see any reference to RAW"s ongoing covert ops in Pakistan, for example. Nor any mention of Kulbhushan Jadahav and RAW's work in Chabahar whose only aim is to destabilize Pakistan. There are 4,000 Indians working in Chabahar; many of them are undercover like Kulbhushan.

https://www.riazhaq.com/2020/07/india-iran-afghanistan-axis-against.html

things come out after decades , may be one day some operator may write about it if raw is really involved .

 

[Zarvan]

RAW is working hard and doing great job of reviving Sind Nationatist and Baloch Insurgency along with helping TTP. Issue is ISI seems to be only busy in hunting traitors inside and their leadership in Iran and Afghanistan. This won't achieve us anything until Indian cities face our covert operations on daily bases. As for book three is nothing surprising here and as for those asking why former ISI officers don't write a book I have only one thing to say.

"HAHA Good Luck with that "