As NSA Ajit Doval turns 75, here's all about his 7-year stint as a spy in Pakistan

National Security viser (NSA) to Prime Minister Modi, Ajit Kumar Doval, who turned 75 on January 20 has donned title of 'Indian James Bond' following his stint as a spy. highly decorated IPS officer of Kerala Cre, who now hes National Security Council has dealt with country's most complex international and domestic security challenges. 

Known as significant brain behind India's security and military apparatus under Modi regime, fifth and current NSA spent seven years as a secret agent in Pakistan. In one of most significant stints, Ajit Doval, as an undercover operative in Pakistan worked to gar intelligence and terror activities, with Dawood Ibrahim, known to be on his constant rar.

Ajit Doval's Pakistan stint

Retired as Director Intelligence Bureau in January 2005, Ajit Doval lived in Pakistan's Lahore, disguised as a Muslim for seven years. During his years in country, he befriended locals visiting mosques and lived among predominantly Muslim population. Acknowledged as a master of psychological welfare, Ajit Doval, as a part of his job also spied on Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI.

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As an secret agent, he gared intel of terror plans of Pakistani-based terrorists, available reinforcements, furr, uncovered weapons and hideouts. Proficient with his negotiation tactics, Doval, during his time strategically lured his way into a militant group called Kukkay Parey, wherein he reportedly cajoled m into turning moles of ir own terror organisation, which paved way for elections in Jammu and Kashmir. 

Sharing an incident from his time in Pakistan, he said that he was once identified as a Hindu by a local from his pierced ears. Doval n underwent plastic surgery to prevent his cover from blowing. Narrating his account, Doval shared, "I was coming back from a Masjid. A man sitting in corner, who h an intriguing personality and a white beard, called me. He asked, are you a Hindu? I replied saying no. He asked me to come with him, and took me to a small room and shut door. He told me, 'See you are a Hindu. Your ears are pierced.' place I come from, as a child re is a trition to pierce ear. I told him it was pierced when I was born. He told me, get plastic surgery of this, it's not safe to walk like that. n I got it (plastic surgery) done." 

In late 1980s. Doval snuck inside Golden Temple posing as a Pakistani agent to Khalistani militants and passed significant information during Operation Black Thunder in 1988. After his stint as an undercover agent, Doval worked in Indian High Commission in Islamab. A close-associate of PM Modi, Doval is also responsible for master-minding surgical strike in 2016. 

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