Ajit Doval’s Birthday: A Man of Many Firsts and The Mind Behind Surgical Strikes
Ajit Doval took his job as a field officer seriously and went above and above to complete his assignment. Doval spent seven years in Pakistan while posing as a Muslim and working for the Indian intelligence service RAW.
Ajit Doval, the sixth and current NSA (National Security Advisor) to the Indian Prime Minister, turns 77 years old on Thursday (January 20). He was born in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, in 1945. The hero, known as the “James Bond of India,” has spent 40 years of his life in obscurity in order to protect his nation. Doval is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the 1968 batch. As the Kottayam ASP, he entered the service in the Kerala cadre. He had a distinguished career in the Intelligence Bureau, where he oversaw the IB from 2004 to 2005.
Here are some examples of the NSA proving he is India’s James Bond:
Mizoram Harmony:
He successfully persuaded six out of the Mizo National Front’s seven commanders to support him. In 1980, MNF gained a bad reputation for fomenting insurrection in Mizoram, and this action broke their back. After that, Mizoram experienced tranquillity.
seven years spent hiding in Pakistan:
Ajit Doval took his job as a field officer seriously and went above and above to complete his assignment. Doval spent seven years in Pakistan while working for the Indian government, according to numerous media accounts. He is an authority in Pakistani politics, history, and culture and is fluent in Urdu. This enabled him to continue operating clandestinely in Pakistan for more than seven years while performing a number of dangerous duties.
46 Indian nurses are released:
Doval was crucial in securing the freedom of 46 Indian nurses who were imprisoned in the hospital in Tikrit, Iraq. Doval travelled to Iraq on June 25 as part of a top-secret mission, made contact with officials at the highest levels of the Iraqi government, and persuaded the ISIS fighters to deliver the nurses to the authorities in Erbil City safely.
46 Indian nurses are released:
Doval was crucial in securing the freedom of 46 Indian nurses who were imprisoned in the hospital in Tikrit, Iraq. Doval travelled to Iraq on June 25 as part of a top-secret mission, made contact with officials at the highest levels of the Iraqi government, and persuaded the ISIS fighters to deliver the nurses to the authorities in Erbil City safely.
Contribution to Operation Black Thunder:
Punjab experienced a peak in Khalistan militancy in the 1980s, and Ajit Doval was a busy field agent trying to infiltrate militant organisations there. Doval worked as a rickshaw puller in the Golden Temple neighbourhood before to Operation Black Thunder. He later got in touch with the militants camped within the Golden Temple by pretending to be a Pakistani ISI agent stationed there to support them.
Doval was able to infiltrate the Golden Temple after gaining their trust, and it was his invaluable knowledge provided to the NSG that enabled a successful strike against the terrorists with a little loss of life and property within the temple complex. For his contributions, he received the Kirti Chakra, a first for an Indian police officer.
Dealing with IC 814 hijackers in Kandahar:
Indian Airlines flight IC 814 to Kandahar was hijacked in 1999. Ajit Doval’s skillful management of the situation and discussion with the hijackers saved additional casualties and damage to the aircraft, even if India’s political decision to yield to the hijackers’ demands was afterwards criticised.