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DOVAL JUST DIDNT KNOW BETTER, IT WAS HIS PLAN ALL ALONG

Mohan Guruswamy 
Those of us who know Ajit Doval, Modi’s NSA, know that he wears his bloodymindedness on his sleeves. He has always been boastful about being an “operational” man and sneers at “analysis ke log”. He even has a largely concocted hagiography about long years spent underground in an enemy country to buttress his credentials as a dangerous man! 

How good an “operational” man he is can be determined when he was caught en flagrante by the local police with a Bombay contract killer called Vicky Malhotra in New Delhi’s Hyatt Hotel. The tipoff was from the Bombay Police and the recent public spat with former Bombay police commissioner, Meeran Borwankar was because he still holds her responsible for outing him.  

I am not per se opposed to “terminating with extreme prejudice” enemies of the country overseas as long as there is a duly vetted process. All major countries do this and follow this process. Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos operating with a presidential authorisation. But our hero has no time for such niceties and legality. He is impressed by the supposed Mossad method of clandestinely executing in foreign lands. Seeing too much of “Munich” is bad for public morality. Even in that movie there is a little bit about the Israeli PM giving the go ahead. So question is did Modi give the operations a nod? If so we must do it well. Getting caught is proof of incompetence.

Assassination has come a long way since the days the old man on the mountain sent his drug crazed “hashasheen” to kill enemies of the faith. In the modern age we all leave electronic trails and operational skills are far more sophisticated than hiring a two bit killer to kill enemies of the state. That is why the former Soviet KGB used to retain the services of chess grandmasters to plan operations. But then Doval has little time for planning and analysis. Thus he often ends up like an Inspector Clouseau with a silenced pistol. 

“US ‘working with India’ to probe report on Pannun

The U.S. expects “accountability” and is raising concerns over the Pannun case with New Delhi regularly, said the State Department, responding for the first time to the latest details reported by TheWashington Post this week. Both the White House and the State department have responded to the report, that named an Indian intelligence official for allegedly ordering the assassination of a Khalistani activist in New York in June 2023, and also claimed that U.S. authorities believe that the R&AW chief and National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval were aware of the plot.”

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