Research and Analysis Wing activities in Pakistan
India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has long been accused by the Pakistani Government, Pakistani Army and the Pakistani news media for sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Background[edit]
According to some media sources in Pakistan, Indian secret service has carried out subversive activities in Pakistan. This is at a time when Pakistani authorities feel that their own war on terrorism is gaining momentum and shows signs of success.[6]
According to Pakistan, RAW has been sponsoring terrorism in Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan by providing military funds to the Baloch separatist groups like Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Baloch Republican Army (BRA) to destabilize Pakistan.[6]
US Security intelligence information also confirmed RAW involvement in Pakistan during the Afghanistan War.[7]
B. Raman, a former RAW official, in the 2007 book, The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane writes, one of RAW's two priorities after its formation was to strengthen its capability for intelligence gathering on Pakistan and China and for covert action in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).[8]
NDS is Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security.[6]
History[edit]
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was established in 1968 in India due to the failure of their Intelligence agencies in 1962 Sino-Indian War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.[8][9] RAW was established to create a specialized and independent agency to gather foreign intelligence information. RAW operations are largely focused on espionage against Pakistan. With the addition of both India and Pakistan to the growing cadre of the world's nuclear powers, India's RAW conducts counter-intelligence operations, as well as technological and remote espionage, against Pakistani defense and military interests.[10][11] Pakistan accuses RAW of violating International laws by providing funds to the Anti-Pakistani groups and designated terrorist groups in Pakistan to destabilize the country. RAW is also accused by Pakistan of training and funding Bengali separatists against the then West Pakistan in 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War to divide Pakistan into two countries.[6][12]
Outside Pakistan, some Western observers also believe that India secretly funds the Balochistan Liberation Army.[13] Pakistan has accused the BLA of being an Indian proxy, and Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad, Afghanistan, for providing arms, training and financial aid to the BLA in an attempt to destabilize Pakistan.[14][15][16][17] Hyrbyair Marri, however, has denied the group has any links with India.
In August 2013, US Special Representative James Dobbins said that Pakistan's fears over India's role in Afghanistan were “not groundless".[18] A diplomatic cable sent on December 31, 2009, from the U.S. consulate in Karachi and obtained by WikiLeaks said it was "plausible" that Indian intelligence was helping the Baloch terrorists.[19] Webster Griffin Tarpley, an American author and a journalist, said that the Research and Analysis Wing are also working in Afghanistan and are helping in recruiting terrorism from Afghanistan into Pakistan.[20] In a Wikileaks cable it was revealed that ISI believed, “India and the UAE (reportedly due to opposition to construction of the Gwadar port) were funding and arming the Baloch. [21] Pakistani authorities have already provided evidence of the involvement of the Research and Analysis Wing and other Indian agencies in creating unrest in Balochistan.[22]
According to Pakistani military expert Ayesha Siddiqa, in the mid-1980s, RAW set up two covert groups of its own, Counter Intelligence Team-X (CIT-X) and Counter Intelligence Team-J (CIT-J), the first targeting Pakistan in general and the second directed at Khalistani groups.[8] The two groups were responsible for carrying out terrorist operations inside Pakistan. Indian journalist Praveen Swami writes that a “low-grade but steady campaign of bombings in major Pakistani cities, notably Karachi and Lahore” was carried out.[8]
Pakistan also accused RAW of supporting Sindhi nationalists demanding a separate state, as well as Seraikis calling for a partition of Pakistan’s Punjab to create a separate Seraiki state. India denies these charges. However, experts point out that India has supported insurgents in Pakistan’s Balochistan, as well as anti-Pakistan forces in Afghanistan.[23][8]
In October 2015, the home department of Pakistan's Punjab province said that they received reports which subsequently issued a high-alert to security institutions over an assassination threat to Nawaz Sharif and Hafiz Saeed. They also said that RAW plans to attack "high-value targets" in the country to create chaos on a wide scale.[24][25]
Notable RAW agents in Pakistan[edit]
On 3 March 2016, Kulbhushan Jadhav was arrested inside Balochistan in Mashkel near the border region of Chaman, having made illegal entry into Pakistan via Iran. Kalbhushan Yadav was accused of being an active raw agent who had been funding Baloch separatists for many years.[23] Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of Pakistan also released a video of Jadhav confessing that he had been funding Baloch separatists and sponsoring terrorism in Balochistan and Karachi.[30][31]
This charge is totally denied by an Indian Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha and former Minister of State (India) for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor in a discussion on Indian TV.[32]
Ravindra Kaushik was a RAW agent who was sent to Pakistan with a fake name of Nabi Ahmed Shakir and was able to join Pakistan Army. He joined the Pakistan Army as a clerk and passed on valuable information to RAW. After eight years of service in RAW, Kaushik was arrested by Pakistan Army and later was sentenced to life imprisonment.[33]
Ties with Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan[edit]
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan was formed in December 2007 to fight against the Pakistani Government and security forces to implement Sharia Law in the country and after Pakistan's support in Global War on terrorism. TTP is not directly affiliated with Afghanistan's Taliban but the ideology of both the organizations are similar. Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States of America and Canada have designated TTP as a terrorist organization.[34]
RAW has been accused of providing military aid to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan to carry out terrorist attacks across Pakistan.[35][36] In April 2017, Ehsanullah Ehsan (Taliban spokesman) surrendered himself to the Pakistan Army.[37] Ehsan is the former spokesman of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and had confessed to the bombings of November 2012 on Shiites, 2014 Wagah border suicide attack, 2016 bombing in a park in Lahore and many other bombings. On his surrender, Ehsan claimed that TTP was getting funding from RAW.[38]
Ehsan revealed that TTP has close ties with RAW which funds TTP for terrorist attacks in Pakistan.[38]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific". British Broadcasting Corporation. 26 February 1998 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Khursheed Condemns RAW Activities in Pakistan". 21 August 2015.
- ↑ Khan, M. Ilyas (6 May 2015). "What lies behind Pakistani charges of Indian 'terrorism'" – via www.bbc.com.
- ↑ "BBC News – SOUTH ASIA – Analysis: History of violence". news.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ Shah, Saeed (11 August 2016). "Pakistan Is Pressed Over Dual-Track Terror Strategy" – via www.wsj.com.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 NDS-Raw nexus fuelling terrorism in Pakistan, The Nation (newspaper), Published 28 September 2015, Retrieved 24 February 2018
- ↑ Jalālzaʼī, Mūsá Ḵẖān (26 February 2018). "Dying to kill". Institute of Advance & Strategic Studies – via Google Books.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "The Covert Clashes Between India's and Pakistan's Spy Agencies". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ↑ "11 Facts About The India's Research And Analysis Wing (RAW) That Are Unknown To Most Of Us".
- ↑ "India, Intelligence and Security - Dictionary definition of India, Intelligence and Security - Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary". www.encyclopedia.com.
- ↑ WikiLeaks cable: 9052
- ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/5kwrHv6ph?url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761588350_3/Indo-Pakistani_Wars.html
- ↑ David Wright-Neville (11 May 2010). Dictionary of Terrorism (1st ed.). Polity. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0745643021. Search this book on
- ↑ Wirsing, Robert G. (27 February 2018). "Baloch Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Energy Resources: The Changing Context of Separatism in Pakistan". Lulu.com – via Google Books.
- ↑ "How India can play the Balochistan card against Pakistan". 7 October 2016.
- ↑ "MPs told Russia, India and UAE involved in Baloch insurgency – The Express Tribune". 3 December 2010.
- ↑ "'RAW Is Training 600 Balochis In Afghanistan'". https://www.outlookindia.com/. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Upadhyay, Brajesh (7 August 2013). "Pakistan concerns 'not groundless'" – via www.bbc.com.
- ↑ "Balochistan – Conflict Between Baloch Separtists and Government Forces Continues to Threaten Stability of Province" – via WikiLeaks PlusD.
- ↑ foreignpolicynews.org/2015/05/29/terrorism-deception-and-india/
- ↑ "MPs told Russia, India and UAE involved in Baloch insurgency". The Express Tribune. December 3, 2010. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
- ↑ Times, Global. "Propagandists stoking anti-China feeling - Global Times". www.globaltimes.cn.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Diplomat, Ahsan Butt, The. "What the Kulbhushan Jadhav Saga Reveals About India and Pakistan's Balochistan Problems".
- ↑ "RAW Planning to Assassinate Sharif, Hafiz Saeed, Claims Punjab Govt". 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "RAW planning to kill Sharif, Saeed: Pakistan govt – Times of India".
- ↑ Masood, Salman (29 March 2016). "Pakistan Releases Video of Indian Officer, Saying He's a Spy" – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ "The Telegraph – Calcutta : Frontpage". www.telegraphindia.com.
- ↑ "Was Sarabjit Singh a RAW agent?". 5 May 2013.
- ↑ "Sarabjit Singh was a RAW agent: Indian report – The Express Tribune". 6 May 2013.
- ↑ CNN, James Griffiths, Sophia Saifi and Sugam Pokharel,. "Pakistan to execute Indian man accused of spying".
- ↑ Associated Press of Pakistan (30 March 2016). "Transcript of RAW agent Kulbhushan's confessional statement". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ↑ Shashi Tharoor on Kulbhushan Yadav death sentence: Pakistan's behavior 'absolutely outrageous' India Today (newspaper), Published 11 April 2017, Retrieved 24 February 2018
- ↑ "Late spy's kin fight for reel life credit". 24 August 2012.
- ↑ "Foreign Terrorist Organizations".
- ↑ "TTP an active Indian card in Pakistan, Afghanistan: Hindustan Times".
- ↑ "Afghanistan, Pakistan and the F-16: Mattis has to hardsell these issues on his visit to India". 21 September 2017.
- ↑ "Pakistani Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan 'surrenders'". www.aljazeera.com.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 RAW supports Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, acknowledges Indian analyst in top daily The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 24 September 2017, Retrieved 24 February 2018
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