James Bond of India

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Meet the James Bond of India..- Ajit Doval

Doval, aged 70, is the country’s spy master and is known to send shivers down the spines of India’s enemies. Here are a few facts that you must know about our National Security Advisor:

1. Ajit Doval is the 5th and current National Security Adviser. Doval, like any other NSA, works closely along side the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Doval has previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2004-05, after spending a decade as the head of its operations wing. Ajit Doval is also the youngest person to win the Police Medal and the prestigious President’s Police Medal.

2. In the 1980s, the Mizoram National Front was breaking India’s back with insurgency. Doval is renowned to have infiltrated the underground Mizo National Front, weaned away half a dozen of its top commanders and all but broke the back of the MNF.

3. Doval spent 7 years as a secret operative in Lahore, Pakistan. 

Though very little is known about Doval’s work in Pakistan, but from what little is available, even that will not fail to amaze you. Ajit Doval stayed undercover in Pakistan for 7 years! 7 years, can you imagine that? 7 years of life in a foreign country living a fake life among alien people while following a different religion! And it’s not a movie we are talking about.

During his stay in Pakistan, he sent vital information about Pakistan’s nuclear development to India. Other details of his work in Pakistan remain classified.

4. He was in the Golden Temple in the days leading up to the Indian Army’s Operation Blue Star. He posed as a Pakistani Spy, gained the militants plans, their intel, reinforcements available to them and various other valuable information.

5. Doval was also India’s main negotiator with the hijackers of Indian Airlines’ flight IC-814 that was hijacked and taken to Kandahar in 1999.
He also played a role in the termination of all 15 hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft between 1971 and 1999.

6. In Kashmir, Doval persuaded prominent militants like Kukkay Parey, and turned himself and his colleagues into ‘moles’ in the terrorist outfit. He then pacified these anti-India outfits and turned them peaceful.

7. Recently, Doval was responsible for getting back 45 nurses from Iraq when the nation was under fire from ISIS. When the situation for 46 nurses seemed bleak in the violence torn country Iraq, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Doval to carry out a high level meeting for bringing back 46 nurses and if necessary to carry out a mass evacuation of Indians from Iraq. Just the day after meeting, Mr Doval went on a secret mission to Iraq to complete the task as he always did.

Obviously not a lot is known about Doval given that he has been a spy, and now is the country’s National Security Advisor.

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