KARACHI: Indian government threatened the parents of RAW agent KulbhushanJadhav who was detained by Pakistan for launching sabotage activities inthe country, according to an Indian newspaper that exposed India’sintelligence agency-RAW in a recent report.
Indian newspaper The Quint published on Friday an extensive report thatspilled the beans regarding the shenanigans of the Indian authoritiesinvolving the wife and mother who met Jadhav in Islamabad at Foreign Officeon December 25.
However, the website removed the report soon after it was published onFriday.
Exposing the RAW, the report said the authorities threatened Jadhav’sparent to keep their mouth shut. It should be mentioned here thatKulbhushan also vented his fury over the way Indian authorities treated hismother and wife soon after the meeting was over.
The newspaper revealed a high officer in India’s external intelligenceagency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) recruited Jadhav for ‘operations ‘in Pakisitan.
The report said the two former chiefs of RAW had “put their foot downagainst recruiting” Kulbushan Jadhav for “operations in Pakistan.”
Pakistan has sentenced him to death in a verdict by a military court oncharges of espionage and terrorism. India maintains Jadhav, a “former navalofficer-turned-businessman,” was “abducted” by Pakistan from Iran.
According to the report, two former RAW senior officers, including onesecretary who headed the RAW after 2008, said that the “proposal to recruitJadhav for operations, whatever it’s worth, was ridiculous.”
“Even as two RAW secretaries refused to hire his services, the proposal torecruit Jadhav for specific assignments was finally acceded to by a chiefwho headed the intelligence agency a few years ago and was subsequentlyre-employed (after retirement) in an organisation also involved incollecting intelligence,” the report says.