The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace PDF
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Previously by A.S. Dulat and Aditya Sinha Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years (2015) Previously by Aditya Sinha The CEO Who Lost His Head (2017) Death of Dreams: A Terrorist’s Tale (2000) Farooq Abdullah: Kashmir’s Prodigal Son (1996) Forthcoming from Asad Durrani Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters (2018) THE SPY CHRONICLES RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace A.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani and Aditya Sinha To my late parents, Shamsher and Raj, who spent many joyous hours playing bridge with two successive High Commissioners of Pakistan in India: Syed Fida Hussain, my father’s former ICS colleague, and Abdul Sattar. —A.S. Dulat To all the faceless agents who take great risks in the service of their country. —Asad Durrani To my parents, Neelam and Chandreshwar Narain Sinha, who, in England during 1965-71, were best friends with Gulshan and Nazir Hussain, immigrants from Lahore. —Aditya Sinha Contents Preface Introduction I: SETTING THE STAGE 1. ‘Even if we were to write fiction, no one would believe us’ 2. The Accidental Spymaster 3. Brotherhood to the Rescue II: THE SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION 4. Pakistan’s Deep State 5. ISI Vs RAW 6. The CIA and Other Agencies 7. The Intelligence Dialogues III: KASHMIR 8. Status Quo 9. The Core K-word 10. Amanullah Gilgiti’s Dreams of Independence 11. Kashmir: The Modi Years 12. The Unloved Dr Farooq Abdullah 13. Take What You Can Get IV: KABUKI 14. India and Pakistan: ‘Almost’ Friends 15. Lonely Pervez Musharraf 16. Modi’s Surprise Moves 17. The Doval Doctrine 18. The Hardliners 19. BB, Mian Saheb and Abbasi 20. Good Vibrations, India-Pakistan V: THE FLASHPOINTS 21. Hafiz Saeed and 26/11 22. Kulbhushan Jadhav 23. Talks and Terror 24. Surgical Strike 25. The Politics of War VI: NEW GREAT GAME 26. The Deal for Osama bin Laden 27. Selfish Self-interests in Afghanistan 28. Donald Trump, Nudger-in-chief 29. Pakistan’s Pal, Putin VII: LOOKING AHEAD 30. Forge Structure or Break Ice? 31. Council of Spies 32. Akhand Bharat Confederation Doctrine 33. Deewangi Khatam Notes Index About the Book About the Authors Copyright If only somehow you could have been mine, what would not have been possible in the world? —Agha Shahid Ali, ‘The Country without a Post Office’ Preface In the dedication, A.S. Dulat and I have each mentioned India-Pakistan friendships that were deep and, silly as it may sound, beautiful. It is a growing fear that in the age of shouting heads on TV and hyper- nationalistic NRIs, we are reminiscing about a bygone era. All hope is not lost—my elder daughter was best friends with a Karachi-ite during her undergraduate years at New York University. On the whole, however, she seems part of a shrinking minority, and a window of opportunity for goodwill between the people of the two nations may be closing. It is to keep that window open, and show that through the window one may see endless possibilities, that this book was written. The hostilities that are ceasefire violations across the Line of Control erupt occasionally, but the norm is of long periods of peace. Similarly, armed conflict between India and Pakistan has broken out on four occasions in their 71 years of independence. Even the proxy war of terrorism is characterised by intense bursts of violence that occasionally puncture everyday peace. The cold war between nations, conducted by their spy agencies, is continuous, however. There is no let-up. There are no uniforms, or counter-measures that force terrorists to opt for soft targets. Spies and their networks live 24x7 lies at great risk to themselves. They are a last line of defence. If a Kargil happens, then it is ultimately attributed to intelligence failure. Terrorism is seen as a slippage through an invisible net put up by the agencies. War is either pursued or averted mainly due to
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