Pakistan

RAW set up cell to sabotage CPEC

Afghan spy agency colluding with RAW, Senate panel told

Our Correspondent April 14, 2016

Afghan spy agency colluding with RAW, Senate panel told. PHOTO: ISPR

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Defence was informed on Wednesday that India’s premier spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), had set up a ‘special cell’ to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.

The revelations came from Defence Secretary Lt Gen (retd) Alam Khattak in an in-camera briefing to the committee on RAW’s involvement in subversive activities in the country.

Indian spy admits RAW destabilising Pakistan

A member of the committee said the defence secretary told the meeting that Indian consulates in Afghanistan were providing money, weapons, training and other logistic support to RAW agents for carrying out subversive activities in Pakistan, particularly in Balochistan and the tribal areas.

The senate panel was also informed that RAW was closely coordinating with the Afghan intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), for anti-Pakistan activities.

The accusation came just a day after army chief General Raheel Sharif told a seminar in Gwadar that India had openly challenged CPEC. Gen Raheel said RAW was blatantly involved in destabilising Pakistan. However, he made it clear that Pakistan will not allow ‘hostile intelligence agencies’ to create unrest in the country.

Pakistan recently claimed to have arrested an Indian spy, Kulbhushan Yadav, in Balochistan near the border with Iran. Yadav, who is an Indian naval officer, confessed to have been working for RAW to create instability in Balochistan as well as in Karachi.

New Delhi has admitted that Yadav was a former navy officer but insisted that he had no connection with the government or RAW.

RAW is blatantly destabilising CPEC, says General Raheel

Briefing the Senate panel on the US Coalition Support Fund (CSF), the defence secretary said Pakistan had received $13 billion in reimbursements under the program to cover some of the cost the country had incurred in the fight against terrorism.

He said the financial arrangement with the US will stand closed in September this year.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 14^th, 2016.

COMMENTS (19)

woz ahmed | 8 years ago | Reply @curious2: CPEC will happen, our leaders have a financial interest, so don't you worry.

ibs | 8 years ago | Reply @ali: What do you think Zarb E Azb and all the operations across the country are for? Don't you see the drop in attacks? Please open your eyes and highlight the positives as well.

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curious2 | 8 years ago | Reply Seems to me that Pakistan is doing a decent job of sabotaging CPEC all on it's own - neither India or Afghanistan has to lift a finger. Incompetence and corruption are a lethal combination - prevents making timely business decisions which is one reason reason why CPEC gets more rhetoric than action.

sabi | 8 years ago | Reply current Pakistani establishment has realized who the agents of foreign agencies are , on top of the list is dharna wala chief. For democracy sake he is being tolerated by the establishment but he would no more be allowed to creat serious problems for the government let alone his quest for any important portfolio. His supporters can quit watching tv talk shows. They are wasting their time.

pk | 8 years ago | Reply @Ahmed: When Kasab and party hit Mumbai CST station was that not civil target? If TTP is funded by RAW then what was their motivation? Isn't they want to establish Sharia for Pakistan? So why don't you establish Sharia in Pakistan and hijack their legitimate cause and then see.

sabi | 8 years ago | Reply If RAW is involved in destabilizing Pakistan then we have to admit Imran Khan is RAW's agent because from day one he is promoting fascism in this country. To get to premiership post he is selling his motherland to enemy. How cheap is this man.

rk | 8 years ago | Reply What has been going on in Kashmir valley is being returned with thanks. Please take your time to decide your choice and it will be responded.

Qamber | 8 years ago | Reply Get Ready to see our ISI will sabotage RAW game soon ...!

Al Furqan | 8 years ago | Reply The Senate was also briefed about RAW's past conspiracies in Pakistan, A. Adoption of the Objectives Resolution. B. Assassination of Liaquat Khan. C. Coup of 1958. D. Yahya succeeding Gen Ayub. E. Tikka Khan promising to alter the 'nasl' of East Pakistanis. F. Denial of Prime Ministership to Mujib. G. The 2nd Amendment H. Coup of 1977. I. Bhutto's hanging J. The alphabet soup of terrorist tanzeems, like LeT, LeJ,ASWJ,JeM etc. K. Kargil L. Dr Q's little supply chain M. Shaheed BB's assassiantion. N. Murder of Shahzad Saleem O. Sheltering OBL. Pakistanis take their own propaganda quite seriously. Even if NO ONE ELSE does.

SKS | 8 years ago | Reply Is there anyone other than the domestic audience take up this? People who are baying for India's blood are living in fools paradise. Try to think critically about what does India gain by disrupting CPEC? Even if India wants ill of Pakistan, doesnt India know that its like opening Pandora's box with all the people swarming to India.

Pakistan Zindabad | 8 years ago | Reply So you saved people of Afghanistan from Taliban for this date. On a routine we are under threat of Afghan Spy Agencies who ally with Indian agency. And still you call them allies.

Ali | 8 years ago | Reply Imran Khan is their JEW agent to sabotage it

Tyggar | 8 years ago | Reply So RAW is colluding with Iran, Afghanistan, USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE to destabilize Pakistan.

Ahmed | 8 years ago | Reply Indians try to pretend CPEC means nothing to them. And yet, they raised alot of hue and cry about it at the highest levels with China. And when we captured their spy in Balochistan(what the heck was an Indian "tourist" doing there anyway?), within days two Pakistani cities are hit with terror attacks. Pakistan is also capable of hitting India. I don't think we should hit civilian targets, that is against our Muslim beliefs. But RAW should definitely feel some fear. When Pakistani schools and parks are hit by Indian-funded TTP terrorists(which Modi's National-Security Advisor Ajit Doval proudly boasts about), perhaps RAW headquarters should also feel consequences. Otherwise, Pakistan will keep being hit, and Indians will continue funding and support.

Tasadiq | 8 years ago | Reply Last Man Alive Unfortunately - you are correct. there is no-one from his party that will challenge his position on this - he is so powerful. Majority of PakistanisI believe in having Good, Peaceful relations with India but NOT at any cost..

ali | 8 years ago | Reply Something to think about: our security agencies know this but are unable to stop terrorist attacks on our home soil? Our establishment is the least accountable institute in the country. When will people wake up and realize that?

NHA | 8 years ago | Reply Now that Senate has been briefed by the senior most official of Defence Ministry, will it give vent to its feelings and issue a warning to India and Afghanistan. The likelihood of this happening is small as the Senate is full of sympathisers and well wishers of these two countries. The nation is waiting to hear from senate.

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply This pattern was used in 1971 and was successful......so they are trying it again.

Last Man Alive | 8 years ago | Reply Doesn't make any difference to Nawaz Sharif. His loyalty to india is unconditional unlike his conditional loyalty to Pakistan dependent on his freedom to loot Pakistan.

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