ISLAMABAD: Former chief of Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing(RAW) Amarjit Singh Dulat has expressed the confidence in Pakistani Chiefof Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa that he can help resolve the issuesbetween the two countries. “I think Bajwa Sab (Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa) beinvited in Delhi and we should talk,” he said.
Asked can Gen Bajwa help resolve the issues between the two countries, hesaid, “I hope so.” He was exclusively talking to this correspondent byphone from New Delhi. Dulat served as the head of RAW, another Indian spyagency, under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He later joinedVajpaee’s Prime Minister’s Office where he kept serving till the end ofVajpaee’s tenure.
Dulat is commonly known as AS Dulat. He and Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani,former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), recently authored a booktitled, “Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion ofPeace”. The book whichis yet to hit the shelves in market is making headlines in the media ofboth the countries.
Asked how was his experience of co-authoring a book with the former spychief of a rival country, Dulat laughed saying “when initially someone gaveus this idea, we thought that no one would believe in our writing even ifwe co-author a fiction”. He declared the experience as “pleasant”.
He disclosed that he had been meeting with Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani intrack-two interactions and he is a nice man. “Initially, we authored twopapers on Kashmir jointly and then someone gave us an idea of writing abook together,” he said.