Nefarious RAW Sponsoring Terror in Pakistan

By Sarah Khan

Arrest of Indian Intelligence Research and Analysis Wing’s Officer Kul Bushan Yadav followed by one of the worst incident of terror in Lahore which claimed more than 72 lives including women and innocent children leaves no doubt of Indian meddling in Pakistan’s internal affairs. There is no denying that in the past Pakistan has been deeply affected by terrorist activities of all shades and hues. RAW’s role in creating problems for Pakistan especially in Sindh and Balochistan is no secret. Thousands of people have been killed and many more injured in such terrorist incidents, which have been the hallmark of mainly Indian intelligence and some other groups supported by unfriendly foreign countries.

On 25^th March, it was reported that Security Forces in Balochistan claimed the arrest of a man who is 'a serving officer in the Indian Navy and deputed to the Indian intelligence agency “Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)”. The spy had been shifted to Islamabad for interrogation, as he was suspected of involvement in various acts of terrorism and other subversive activities in Balochistan. During investigation he has revealed that more than 500 RAW trained terrorists are in Pakistan. He added that trained terrorists are working in Karachi and Balochistan whereas he traveled to Pakistan from Chah Bahar, an Iranian city and see port.

The spy had links with separatist elements in Balochistan, the individual was also involved in acts of sectarian terrorism and terror attacks in Karachi. Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti confirmed the arrest of an Indian spy from the southern part of the province. The arrest has proved Indian involvement in Balochistan. Bugti added that the Indian spy was sponsoring terrorist and subversive activities in Balochistan. Bugti last year claimed RAW and NDS are behind the funding and training of Baloch insurgents.

Sattar Masoori, a BRA militant who surrendered in August 2015, claimed that the Indian intelligence agency RAW and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) were behind funding and training of the BRA militants. The RAW and NDS personnel trained BRA militants in its camps in Afghanistan, he said, adding that providing arms and ammunition and transport were also their responsibility. He said he and many other BRA militants had received training to carry out subversive activities in camps in the Afghan district of Spin Boldak and Nimruz.

In February 2016, Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, informed the administrative judge of antiterrorism courts about 90-day preventive detention of three suspected hitmen who had been trained by the Indian spy agency RAW to carry out terrorist activities in Karachi. The suspects disclosed during initial questioning that they along with other accomplices flew to India via Sri Lanka and Thailand and were received by RAW officials at Delhi airport who later took them to different places for training. After completing the training, the suspects were tasked with creating disturbances and carrying out terrorist activities in the city and to train their accomplices, they disclosed.

After the tragic incident of Lahore and confession of RAW’s agent that India has trained 500 terrorists inside Pakistan, the government of Pakistan should urge international community and UN to take action against terrorists of RAW. On the lines of counter ISIS strategy, Pakistan must also urge international community to devise and implement counter RAW related terror strategy in order to eliminate Indian terror from the region. Moreover, it may also be conveyed to Afghanistan and Iran that they must not allow Indian to use their territories as launching pade for terrorist’ acts insides Pakistan.

Arrest of RAW Agent

By Dr Moeed Pirzada 

Arrest of Raw Agent Kal Boshan Yadev from Baluchistan! Many of you wonder why our government is shying away from making full disclosure, why not release his video interview, his full details officially? Details of his activities in Baluchistan? the actions he organized, the groups he funded across Karachi and different parts of Pakistan? This is a very valid question that bothers many many minds...
Reason is that powerful interests in Islamabad are pressing hard to   suppress this information. They are advising to 'stay cool', they are warning of 'Indian reaction', lack of cooperation with Pakistani SIT on Pathankot AFS attack (which is another big b ) the forthcoming dialogue with Modi, the possible visits of Foreign Secretaries etc etc and so son..and they are worried that 'disclosure of parties and sectarian groups receiving Indian funding' will be a political bombshell...
But the fact remains that Indian establishment, and not only the Modi Sarkar, but the whole Indian establishment, has been caught with its pants down. The fact that India had been helping, orchestrating sectarian and political violence across Pakistan - from the fringes of FATA, through the insurgency belt of Baluchistan to the killing streets of Karachi is hardly a news. This should not surprise anyone. But 'Comander Kal Boshan Yadev' provides the proof, the connect, a rare discovery of its kind, one in a life time that happens in this kind of 'proxy conflict'
Countries, Nation states and their agencies have always done that. Insurgencies, political conflicts, urban violence were often - if not always - sponsored from outside. That makes perfect sense from a 'national interest perspective'. Once we created bleeding wounds in FATA as a result of our U-Turn against Taliban, or sent shock waves of anger and hurt in a large perimeter around Islamabad after our stupid, ill-advised rash action against 'Lal Masjid' or when we failed to pacify the Baluch nationalists through a political process or the city of Karachi  through a genuine 'City Government' (free from the control of rural Sindh) then a fertile ground existed for outside agencies to exploit, to accentuate and increase the violence.
And Indian agencies naturally had a field day to exploit the situation. This pattern started to become obvious several years ago. But Indians mostly did it in a very sophisticated fashion. Their influence inside Afghanistan in a post-Taliban Afghanistan on Tajik & Uzbek establishments was a great help. They used their 'proteges' and 'assets' inside Afghanistan, inside NDS, inside Afghan government to advance their agendas of political violence inside Pakistan - from FATA to Karachi. Presence of large number of Indian assets inside the construction companies and economic entities was part of the design. Naive Pakistani media kept on crying foul, repeating adnauseum stories of 16 or 20 Indian Consulates across Afghanistan. But Indians never had more than 3-4 Consular stations. They are not that dump. They are smart. This strategy of using overlapping contacts and assets is called 'Wheels within Wheels' in political science. Arresting foot soldiers of violence, or insurgency becomes meaningless. What even if a senior TTP leader gets arrested; he can only point to contacts inside Afghanistan or other Taliban groups. Its next to impossible to  reach to the 'roots' or 'master minds' - even if in rare movement of generosity CIA hands over 'Lateef Ullah Mehsud" to you. It still cannot take you very far.
All agencies know that. Lets ask ourselves: Who sponsored all the violent insurgent groups in Syria? who wanted to get rid of Bashar al Asad? And who may now be punishing 'Erodogan's Turkey' for his uncalled 'audaciousness'? Look at the increasing violence in Turkish cities; all the Turks can do is to thunder against the 'Kurds'; they can't even name their real enemies. They know it won't help.
Bottom line is you understand the 'proxy conflict' and role of 'external agencies' by observing the patterns; by connecting the dots. And Indian role and strategy was written large on all what happened in Pakistan after 9/11. I have repeatedly hinted on this in my programs and I have written many times on this page.
The way regional dynamics are: it is not in India's larger interest to accept a stable, prosperous Pakistan. A stable, confident, internationally connected Pakistan with international businesses investments, financial flows, international sporting events like bilateral Indo-Pakistan cricketing events, T-20s, World Cups and all that don't suit Indian lager design in the region. Such a stable Pakistan will be a confident Pakistan that will assert itself, its rights and concerns on the negotiation table.
India will prefer a Pakistan that is harassed by internal conflict and insurgencies, political violence and a Pakistan continuously facing the charge sheet of 'exporting terrorism'. Such a situation - that prevails at the moment - helps India to negotiate with Pakistan on its terms. On one hand it prevents any discussion on Kashmir, on the other hand it allows them to make a case for trade and energy routes to Central Asia via Afghanistan. And all without any necessary, politically difficult quid-pro quo. Pakistan's image helps India to extract all kinds of concessions from a weak Pakistani state that is continuously under pressure to engage India. Because the 'narrative' is that while India is eager to engage Pakistan, its Pakistan and its agencies that don't let the regional peace move forward. Now look at the pattern of Indo-Pakistani talks; Is not this what is happening again and again?
I don't buy that Nawaz Sharif's principal motivation to engage India  and Modi, at all costs, is contingent upon his personal business interests. No, he appears to be under international compulsions. And these international compulsions, to a great extent, are created by the power of Indian narrative shaping around Pakistan. Pakistan  is seen as the 'trouble maker' that is not letting a regional peace happen. This is what is India's great regional design is. And this is where RAW and countless agents like 'Commander Kal Boshan Yadev s/o of Sudhir Jadhev fit in. This is where India's indirect support for TTP, Baluch insurgents, sectarian organizations and killer gangs of Karachi all neatly fit in.
It is because of this that people like me were very suspcious when Narendra Modi suddenly visited PM Nawaz in Lahore in end December 2015; I had predicted then in my program that we should not be overly excited about this; since it defies the overall  Indian logic, India's Grand Design.
Understanding this 'Indian Grand Design' is important. No only the Indian, but many many Pakistani commentators will sweat hard to reject that such a design exists. Accepting this flies against their 'superficial mantras' of 'peace and harmony' which they have been repeating ad-nauseum again and again for past 20 plus years - without any real progress on ground. In the process they have become biggest advocates of 'endless appeasement'. But real peace is possible only and only when Pakistan gets to expose this 'Grand Design' and wriggles out of the narrative that India has shaped around it.
Unfortunately PM Nawaz Sharif is not willing or is unable to understand this 'Indian Grand Design' he thinks that his 'Sari Diplomacy, his smiles and good will messages' basically his 'endless appeasement of Modi and India' will somehow lead to a change in Indian 'Strategic Design & Thinking'. No. It won't happen. Inter-state affairs are guided by solid well perceived interests. Success of PM Nawaz will depend upon if he can take bold stand; if he can capitalize upon the arrest of RAW Agents like 'Commander Kal Boshan Yadev s/o Sudhir Jhadev'. But more importantly it depends upon his government's ability to fast track the development of CPEC trade route, earliest connectivity of Gawadar port with regional flows, his ability to keep Baluchistan and Karachi peaceful, his suppression of sectarian violence and his ability to continuoulsy engage religious parties - not letting them come

Another Conspiracy Hatched: Serving Indian Naval Personnel Held For Spying in Pakistan

Ishaal Zehra

Yet another time Pakistani security agencies have captured an agent of India’s top spy agency RAW from the volatile southwestern province of Balochistan. In a media statement, Home Minister Balochistan, Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said that the agent who was captured in an intelligence guided raid in Chaman area (near Pak-Afghan border) was an Indian Naval serviceman who was active in the province with an aim to destabilize Pakistan. Maps of different installations and sites and Afghan and Pakistani SIMs were also recovered from his possession.

Sources say that the arrested agent, Kul Bushan Yadav, is an in-service commander rank officer of the Indian Navy and was deputed to work for India's external intelligence agency RAW. They claim that Bhushan had contacts with separatist groups and Baloch liberation parties operating in province. He was actually working as agent and trainer of Baloch insurgents.

During initial investigation, he confessed his links with separatist, sectarian and terrorist organizations in Karachi and Balochistan.

Sarfraz Bugti said that the arrest confirms the involvement of RAW in Balochistan as the man was found guilty of sponsoring subversive activities in the already-troubled province and arranging for funding and training of the Baloch Republican Army. Minister also claimed that India is spreading unrest in Balochistan through RAW agents with help of Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS).

Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, ISI, claimed they have ‘blown a major RAW ring through this catch’. After initial interrogation by agency’s Balochistan office, the arrested man was moved to Islamabad for detailed investigation, they said. As per them and other informed official sources, the RAW officer told the interrogators that he has been operating with the assistance of Afghanistan’s spy agency, NDS. As per initial investigation, the RAW officer had came from Iran to Afghanistan and had been operating from Kandhar province. He used to enter into Balochistan on regular basis as he was running a network of agents in that volatile province.

Interestingly, Yadav, during preliminary investigations confessed that his main agenda was to sabotage the CPEC through propaganda and create disharmony among the Baloch nationalist political parties. He crossed the Pak-Afghan border 12 times. The initial investigation also reveals that during his latest stay, he contacted various Baloch nationalist leaders and insurgents, including Dr Allah Nazar Baloch, to task them to undermine the CPEC project.  He also distributed millions of rupees among the trouble-makers and insurgents of Balochistan.

Pakistan has always been pointi8ng out Indian hand in areas bordering Afghanistan and Iran. She also raised objections on the presence of Indian consulates near the Pak-Afghan border which are constantly being used by India to export turbulence in Pakistan through the porous Pak-Afghan border. Out of the total more than 15 Indian consulates in Afghanistan, most are located in areas adjacent to Pakistan border and Yadev was stationed at one of them in Kandahar.

On the same note, former US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has also indicated that India is using Afghan soil to finance the problems for Pakistan. According to the video still present on internet Hagel, during an address on Afghanistan at Oklahoma’s Cameron University in 2011, had said, "India for some time has always used Afghanistan as a second front, and India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan on that side of the border”. “And you can carry that into many dimensions, the point being the tense, fragmented relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been there for many, many years,” he added.

Ironically entire U.S. policy is a provision to these Indian incursions in Pakistan, as Webster G. Tarpley revealed in an interview, “The entire thrust of U.S. policy in the region (Afghanistan and Pakistan) is to provoke a civil war in Pakistan, to breakup Pakistan and prevent Pakistan in becoming energy corridor between Iran and China. I think this claim is actually quite plausible.”

The Western media habitually insists on the bizarre assumptions that Pakistan has secret ties with jihadis to launch attacks on India, but it has less often revealed that India is persistently involved in a proxy war against Pakistan.

For clues as to what Indian spooks are up to now, let's talk about the viral video of a 2013 speech by Ajit Doval delivered before he was appointed as National Security Advisor (NSA) by Indian Prime Minister Modi. Doval while addressing to the crowd of SASTRA University said, "How do we tackle Pakistan? .. You make it difficult for them (Pakistan) to manage their internal security... Pakistan's vulnerability is many many times higher than India's....Taliban have beheaded 23 of their (Pakistani) soldiers...funding can be countered by giving more funds...more than one-and-a-half times the funding they have available and they'll be yours..the Taliban are mercenaries...go for more of a covert thing"  (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cq6ov_how-to-tackle-pakistan-by-ajit-doval-india-national-security-adviser-2014_webcam)

The arrest of Indian spy comes at a crucial time. Pakistani officials are set to travel to India to discuss the Pathankot incident, which India has blamed on non-state actors based in Pakistan – the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). Islamabad has assured New Delhi of full cooperation in this case. However, the investigations made so far on the leads provided by India have not yielded any result, security sources said. “We searched their (JeM leaders’) homes, seminaries, hideouts and also examined their call records for past three months and found nothing dubious,” a security official with links to the investigating team told a news agency. What we have to see now is what India has to offer Pakistan in this evident case of conspiracy against Pakistan.

RAW

By Farrukh Saleem

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RAW and Tamil Tigers: According to the Jain Commission, which was set up by PM Narasimha Rao, India trained five extremist organisations using the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) – the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Fron (EPRLF), Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) and Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students (EROS).

The Indian Air Force undertook ‘Operation Poomalai’ to help the besieged Tamil Tigers in the town of Jaffna. The Jain Commission says that RAW provided camps across Tamil Nadu to each of the five extremist organisations where they learned the deadly tactics of suicide bombing. For the record, one hundred thousand Sri Lankans were killed during the course of the Sri Lankan civil war.

RAW and Balochistan: According to WikiLeaks, “Foreign powers have dangerous designs in Balochistan”, “KGB along with RAW and KHAD had supported insurgency in Balochistan”, and India “is striving hard to destabilize and possibly detach Balochistan from Pakistan.”

On February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing ‘The Global Intelligence Files’ whereby five million emails were exposed. According to WikiLeaks, militant organisations such as the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) etc are materially and financially funded by CIA, RAW, MI-6, RAAM and Mossad to keep Balochistan destabilised through acts of sabotage and subversion. The BLA alone received Rs50-90 million per month. According to The Hindu of October 8, 2015, “India is preparing to take an aggressive position on Balochistan, in a marked departure from South Block’s Pakistan policy of the past.” The Hindu continues, “The new Indian position over Balochistan became public when Balochistan Liberation Organization (BLO) representative Balaach Pardili addressed a gathering in New Delhi….reading out a statement from BLO’s exiled leader Nawabzada Hyrbyair Marri.

RAW and Mukti Bahini: On May 15, 1971, Indian Army’s Eastern Command officially initiated ‘Operation Jackpot’. RAW had set up training camps in the Indian states of West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura. RAW equipped the Mukti Bahini with Italian howitzers, Dakota DC-3 aircraft, Otter DHC-3 fighter planes and Allouette helicopters.

For the record, the Mukti Bahini killed anywhere from 1,000 Biharis (according to the ‘Chronology for Biharis in Bangladesh’) to 150,000 Biharis (according to the ‘Encyclopaedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict’; page 64).

RAW and the TTP: According to leaked WikiLeaks cables, “On December 15, 2009, Treasury Department Acting Assistance Secretary of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis met with senior officials from the United Arab Emirates State Security Department (SSD) and Dubai’s General Department of State Security (GDSS) to discuss suspected Taliban-related financial activity in the UAE.” According to the cable, “GDSS believes that India also has supported Pakistani Taliban and Pakhtun separatists.”

India has six neighbours – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Nepal and Pakistan. India has had border disputes with China, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In 1974, India and Sri Lanka resolved their border dispute through an agreement. In 2015, India and Bangladesh resolved their border disputes when the Indian Parliament passed the 100th Amendment Act. India’s border disputes with China, Pakistan and Nepal are yet to be resolved. History is witness that in this part of the world the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) laid the foundation of cross-border terrorism.

The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad.

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