Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar to take reins of ISI Lieutenant-General Rizwan Akhtar took the reins of the chief of ISI in November last year. He took charge from Lt-General Zaheerul Islam as the director general, considered by many to be both the most powerful and the most challenging position in the country. It’s done the world over,” Dulat had said, while speaking to NDTV’s Barkha Dutt.ĭestabilising Pakistan: ISI urged to counter plans of hostile agencies

“So what’s wrong? What is there to be so shocked or scandalised by. India funded militants in Kashmir to counter ISI: ex-RAW chiefĭulat also upheld that he hasn’t exposed any secrets in his book titled “Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years” and only expressed his views on matters already dominating the public domain.Įarlier in July, in another startling revelation, Dulat admitted Indian intelligence agencies have over the years paid militants and separatists, along with mainstream politicians and political parties in Indian Kashmir to compete with Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI. We don’t have technical abilities but are fast catching up.” When asked to rate RAW against the spy agencies of the rest of the world, the former spy master said, “I believe we’re as good as anybody else. 'The most powerful intelligent agency is either be KGB which no more exists or ISI, because they are very anonymous', AS Dulat #TLFDelhi- Times Litfest Delhi November 29, 2015 'The most powerful intelligence agency is either KGB which no more exists or ISI, because they are very anonymous', AS Dulat said, while addressing a session at the Times Lit Fest in New Delhi. In the first admission of its kind, former chief of India’s premier spy agency (RAW) said Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), is the most powerful in the world.

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