NEW DELHI – The former special director of the India’s Intelligence Bureauand former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing—termed fieldingin-service RAW officer Kulbhushan Jadhav as worst mistake in his book TheSpy Chronicles.
Dulat goes on to say that “if this were a RAW operation and he was a RAWspy, then it’s a pretty sloppy operation.”
Dulat says the entire episode of Jadhav was mismanaged by both countries.
“It could have been kept quiet. In fact, it could have been used forgoodwill. The NSA dialogues we keep hearing about, all General Janjua(current Pakistan NSA) had to do was call Ajit Doval up and say, we’ve gotyour guy but don’t worry. He’ll be taken care of. In due course you tell uswhat to do with him…but that’s how good the ISI is, it put him straighton TV! Like we did during Kargil war, when we made public that interceptbetween General Musharraf and General Aziz.”
In another chapter, Dulat continues the conversation on Jadhav and says itshould be easier to get Jadhav out of Pakistan than it would be to get himout of a more friendly country like the US.