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Former RAW chief has said that the India funded militants in Kashmir to counter Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
According to CNS speaking to an Indian TV channel, the former chief of India’s premier spy agency (RAW) said, “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.”
“So what’s wrong? What is there to be so shocked or scandalised by. It’s done the world over,” he said.
Dulat said, “the Indian government quite often paid for the air fares, medical treatment and general upkeep of even hardened pro-Pakistan separatists like Syed Ali Geelani.”
He admitted India’s ‘spooks’ had been in touch with everyone from ‘separatists to militants’.
“One of India’s most wanted terrorists Syed Salahuddin was in touch with me and was ready to leave Pakistan and return to India.”
Further, defending the use of money in the beleagured valley, the former RAW chief said it was done in the “hope of engaging militants and separatists and also to compete for influence with the ISI”.
“Corrupting someone with money is more ethical and smarter than killing him,” he added.
