Meet Ravinder Kaushik, The Indian RAW Agent Who Served As A Major In The Pakistan Army

[micky]

Ravinder Kaushik was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan in 1952 to a Punjabi family. He was just a teenager who loved performing theater when he was spotted by India’s external intelligence agency, RAW. Nothing much is clear as to what happened in between his first contact with the RAW personnel during the national drama presentation and his graduation in 1975. Ravinder Kaushik joined the intelligence agency after graduating and little did he know that it would turn out to be a life-altering decision.
Fast forward to November 2001 in Pakistan where a certain Nabi Ahmed suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease takes his final breath on his deathbed while ensuring a secret passage for the last of the letters he would write to his mother. This was not a hassle for him; passing on secret texts and document across the border, it is what he had been trained for thirty years ago when he first started training as an undercover agent for India.
Ravinder Kaushik or Nabi Ahmed was India’s best spy to ever penetrate the rank and profile of the Pakistan army. He went undercover at an age of 23 after being recruited by RAW. During his training in Delhi he learned Urdu, got acquainted with the muslim religious texts, the topography in Pakistan and underwent circumcision. When he was sent to Pakistan in 1975, all his records in India were destroyed and he was given a new identity of Nabi Ahmed Shakir. Nabi Ahmed now started his LLB in Karachi University to create a perfect back story and join the Pakistan army.
He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army and soon promoted to the rank of Major. During that time he converted to Islam and married a local girl Amanat, fathering a son with her. From 1979 to 1983 he passes on critical information to the Indian defense forces which were of great help. Because of the valuable information being sent by Nabi Ahmed he became famous as ‘The Black Tiger’ in Indian defense circles, a name conferred by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi herself.
In 1983, Inyat Masiha was sent by RAW to get in touch with Nabi Ahmed. He was caught by Pakistani intelligence agencies and tortured to reveal Nabi Ahmed’s true identity. The cover now blown by the Pakistani intelligence agencies, Ravinder Kaushik was tortured for two years before being sentenced to death in 1985. His death sentence was later changed to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
Kaushik spent the last 16 years of his glorious life in various jails including Mianwali and Sialkot. Due to the poor facilities in the Pakistani jails, he contracted Asthma and TB which turned fatal. After enduring extreme trauma he finally succumbed to a heart disease in the New Central Multan Jail. The finest Indian spy is still buried today behind that jail.
His life still inspires a lot of young RAW officers and he is still remembered as India’s finest intelligence agent who never gave up serving his country in his death. Ravinder Kaushik will always be a true Indian soldier who gave his life without ever asking for any acknowledgement. We salute the great Indian warrior – The Black Tiger!

 

[thesolar65]

Reminds me of Kim Philby!!

 

[M.SAAD]

That sounds too unreal .

 

[Sinnerman108]

BollyWood ..

If monkeys can fly
then this is also possible !

 

[RoadRunner401]

And now the Reality

The real life behind a 2002 spy thriller

• Presley Thomas, Hindustan Times
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• Updated: Dec 06, 2009 01:33 IST

• Seven years ago, Maloy Krishna Dhar wrote Mission to Pakistan: An Intelligence Agent in Pakistan, describing the life of an Indian spy.
  
  The former joint director of India’s Intelligence Bureau had always said his book was based on the life of an agent but he never revealed his identity.
  
  In all likelihood, the real-life spy was Ravindra Kaushik, who died a humiliating death as Nabi Ahmed in 2002 at the age of 50 in a jail in Multan.
  
  Seven years after he died, based on interviews with intelligence officials and Kaushik’s brother Rajeshwarnath, who lives in Jaipur, HT pieced together the Indian agent’s life story.
  
  “There are resemblances between Kaushik’s character and my book’s protagonist,” Dhar finally admitted.
  
  Born and brought up in Sriganganagar, a border town in Rajasthan, Kaushik grew up to be a charismatic college student, with above-average intelligence and looks. He was theatrically inclined, and staged mono-acting skits in college.
  
  As an impressionable teenager growing up between 1965 and 1971, when India went to war with Pakistan, Kaushik became a fervent patriot.
  
  “It was probably his mono-act in college in which he played an Indian army officer who refused to divulge information to China that caught the attention of intelligence officers,” said Rajeshwarnath Kaushik, two years younger than Ravindra.
  
  Soon after completing his Bachelors in Commerce, Kaushik left for Delhi, entering a world of intrigue and danger.
  
  He moved from there to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, ending up in Pakistan, writing letters home every once in a while to let his family know of his whereabouts.
  
  In Pakistan, he converted to Islam, changed his name, married a local girl, graduated from a law college and finally, became the ultimate insider by entering the Pakistani army.
  
  But just when he had infiltrated the inner fortress, his career came to an abrupt halt. In 1983, when he was 29, an Indian agent called Inayat Masiha, caught by Pakistan as he was crossing the border, blew Kaushik’s cover.
  
  
  Masiha arranged to meet with Kaushik in a park, where Pakistan’s intelligence agencies arrested him on charges of espionage and threw him into a Multan jail. He remained there for 18 years.
  
  
  Just three days before his death, he wrote a bitter letter home: “Had I been an American, I would have been out of this jail in three days.”
  
  
  The only thing the government did after he died was to send his parents some money every month as pension, said Rajeshwar. The family first got Rs 500 a month, and after a few years, they began receiving Rs 2,000 a month -- until 2006, when their mother Amladevi died. Their father had already died of a stroke two years following his son’s death.
  
  The only person in India who cherishes Kaushik’s memory is his younger brother. “He will always remain important for me,” Rajeshwar said. “But for the country, he was just another agent.”

 

[rezangahir]

Poor Amanat

 

[M.SAAD]

Just three days before his death, he wrote a bitter letter home: “Had I been an American, I would have been out of this jail in three days.”



That reminded me of Raymond Devis ..

 

[Areesh]

Poor bastard.

 

[xyxmt]

Ravinder Kaushik was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan in 1952 to a Punjabi family. He was just a teenager who loved performing theater when he was spotted by India’s external intelligence agency, RAW. Nothing much is clear as to what happened in between his first contact with the RAW personnel during the national drama presentation and his graduation in 1975. Ravinder Kaushik joined the intelligence agency after graduating and little did he know that it would turn out to be a life-altering decision.
Fast forward to November 2001 in Pakistan where a certain Nabi Ahmed suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease takes his final breath on his deathbed while ensuring a secret passage for the last of the letters he would write to his mother. This was not a hassle for him; passing on secret texts and document across the border, it is what he had been trained for thirty years ago when he first started training as an undercover agent for India.
Ravinder Kaushik or Nabi Ahmed was India’s best spy to ever penetrate the rank and profile of the Pakistan army. He went undercover at an age of 23 after being recruited by RAW. During his training in Delhi he learned Urdu, got acquainted with the muslim religious texts, the topography in Pakistan and underwent circumcision. When he was sent to Pakistan in 1975, all his records in India were destroyed and he was given a new identity of Nabi Ahmed Shakir. Nabi Ahmed now started his LLB in Karachi University to create a perfect back story and join the Pakistan army.
He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army and soon promoted to the rank of Major. During that time he converted to Islam and married a local girl Amanat, fathering a son with her. From 1979 to 1983 he passes on critical information to the Indian defense forces which were of great help. Because of the valuable information being sent by Nabi Ahmed he became famous as ‘The Black Tiger’ in Indian defense circles, a name conferred by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi herself.
In 1983, Inyat Masiha was sent by RAW to get in touch with Nabi Ahmed. He was caught by Pakistani intelligence agencies and tortured to reveal Nabi Ahmed’s true identity. The cover now blown by the Pakistani intelligence agencies, Ravinder Kaushik was tortured for two years before being sentenced to death in 1985. His death sentence was later changed to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
Kaushik spent the last 16 years of his glorious life in various jails including Mianwali and Sialkot. Due to the poor facilities in the Pakistani jails, he contracted Asthma and TB which turned fatal. After enduring extreme trauma he finally succumbed to a heart disease in the New Central Multan Jail. The finest Indian spy is still buried today behind that jail.
His life still inspires a lot of young RAW officers and he is still remembered as India’s finest intelligence agent who never gave up serving his country in his death. Ravinder Kaushik will always be a true Indian soldier who gave his life without ever asking for any acknowledgement. We salute the great Indian warrior – The Black Tiger!

do you idiots even know that every single recruit in Pakistan army is checked, his home is visited his neighborhood investigated about him...this I am talking about sipahi. But yeah you can thump your 56inch Seena on 60inch height.
make up these stupid stories for your home crowd so everyone can thump 56inch seena of 60inch height.

 

[trident2010]

Good work RAW and RIP Shaheed Ravinder Kaushik.

By Allah's grace there would be many more like you now serving for India in Pakistan

 

[Mike_Brando]

do you idiots even know that every single recruit in Pakistan army is checked, his home is visited his neighborhood investigated about him...this I am talking about sipahi. But yeah you can thump your 56inch Seena on 60inch height.
make up these stupid stories for your home crowd so everyone can thump 56inch seena of 60inch height.

This 56 inches chest ensured that your beloved country was torn into two halves back in 1971.So before trying to humiliate us always remember that it was your country that was utterly humiliated by us and it was your army that made the largest mass surrender after the WW-II.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

BollyWood ..

If monkeys can fly
then this is also possible !

Lmao..


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And than one has to pass those Pschy tests,ISSB etx etc.


But hey it's bollywoood land..

 

[Manas]

He did a Law degree in pakistan and managed to join PA's JAG department as a lawyer . was a non combatant officer

 

[xyxmt]

Lmao..


Any checks your entire background ..


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Record of family (available with govt)
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Etx etc etx etc


And than one has to pass those Pschy tests,ISSB etx etc.


But hey it's bollywoood land..

what these idiots dont know is that in Pakistan Army when a Sipahi is promoted to Halwaldar he is rechecked again, at every promotion everything is checked again.

 

[karakoram]

what these idiots dont know is that in Pakistan Army when a Sipahi is promoted to Halwaldar he is rechecked again, at every promotion everything is checked again.

He was actually sunny deol on covert mission in Pakistan