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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
India admits Sarabjit Singh was RAW agent* Spy was sent on a special mission to Pakistan
NEW DELHI: India at last on Monday admitted that Sarabjit Singh was an agent for Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in Pakistan.
According to an Indian intelligence official, Sarabjit Singh was sent to Pakistan for an operation managed by a senior RAW official, who later became the external intelligence agency’s chief as well.
“Sarabjit was an Indian spy in Pakistan. He managed to accomplish the task given to him but was caught while trying to flee,” Hidustan Times quoted an intelligence officer of RAW as saying. However, he refused to elaborate more on the operation taken up by the spy. A former Indian intelligence official, who dealt with Sarabjit’s case, said the operation executed by Sarabjit didn’t serve any tactical purpose but still the agency had executed many such missions in Pakistan in the early and mid 90s.
“Some of the operations executed by RAW during the period were totally mindless. Spies like Sarabjit and their family have paid huge cost for it. Sometimes, the agency officials executed operations out of personal bravado that they can get ‘something’ done in Pakistan,” said the official. “Sarabjit had been awarded a state funeral because his case was mainly highlighted due to efforts of his politically astute sister Dalbir Kaur. His family is also being compensated, but there are many cases in which the spies came back from Pakistan knocked the doors of courts to get their dues,” the source said. It should be mentioned that the Indian terrorist had died last week after being attacked by fellow inmates at Kot Lakhpat prison in Lahore. Singh was sentenced to death for spying and his role in bomb attacks that killed 14 people in Pakistan in 1990.
His family always insisted Singh was innocent and had strayed into Pakistan by mistake when he was arrested. inp
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk