Re: Indian hand behind terrorism in Balochistan and FATA?
These Kaoboys of India’s RAW agency have been busy!
When Indira Gandhi took over as Prime Minister of India in the late 60s, among her basic priorities was to undo the division of India that created a new State – Pakistan, which was highly irritating the Indian leaders since its birth.
In that particular era, all of India’s intelligence related matters, both internal and external, were managed by only one intelligence agency of the country and that was the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The Daily Mail’s research indicates that when Mrs. Gandhi assumed the charge of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) at New Delhi, she ordered the IB to prepare comprehensive plans to destabilize Pakistan and to transform it into a failed State and to negate the 2-Nation Theory which was the foundation of the creation of Pakistan.
The Daily Mail’s research indicates that in 1968, the then head of IB’s External Division Wing and the founder of Directorate General of Security, commonly known as DG(S) in India, was Rameshwar Nath Kao, a confidante of Indira Gandhi and her late father, as he was cleared of falling to any honey trap because of being Gay, who presented a very comprehensive plan to fulfill Indira Gandhi’s wishes regarding Pakistan.
This 240-page plan, which is still known as The “ Kao Plan “ in India’s clandestine community, had three different operations to destabilize Pakistan.
The Kao Plan, which is described as a three-pronged strategy by the Indian officials, had three different operations to eliminate Pakistan. The first, known as Kao’s Bangla Plan(KBP) was chalked out tostart an insurgency movement in East Pakistan and transform the Eastern part of Pakistan into a new State. The 2nd plan, known as Kao’s Balochistan Plan (KBP-II) was architected to create a similar scenario in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, while the 3rd one was related to organizing a separation movement in the then North Western Frontier Province(NWFP) and now Khyber Pakhtun Khowah to establish an independent State there and this one is known as the Kao’s Pakhtoonistan Plan (KPP).
Indira Gandhi, the research indicates, went through Rameshwar Nath Kao’s plans comprehensively. She held a detailed meeting with Kao and discussed his plans in great detail. After the meeting, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi reached to the conclusion that Kao plans were quite comprehensive and had all the potential of earning far reaching results. However, she was concerned with the limited capabilities of the country’s top intelligence agency (the Intelligence Bureau). After detailed deliberations with Kao and her other close associates, Mrs. Gandhi felt that the IB was not at all capable of executing the Kao plans. According to some Indian media persons, who were close to the developments at the PMO in late 60s, Indira Gandhi finally decided that since IB did not posses enough capabilities to run the foreign missions and the related the Kao plans, there was an urgent need for India to have a separate, more powerful and more resourceful intelligence Agency to execute extremely high profile projects like the Kao Plans. According to these journalists, Indira Gandhi while contemplating formation a brand new intelligence mechanism for execution of Kao plans regarding Pakistan, was also eyeing situation viz a viz China.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that after all the discussions and deliberations, it was decided to start a new Intelligence agency but to keep its profile as a research body and not as spy agency for the outside world. This agency was given the title of Research and Analysis Wing, commonly know as RAW. RAW was finally formed on 21 st September, 1968 under the Cabinet Division and Mr. Rameshwar Nath Kao was declared as its first Chief. Even though the Prime minister approved all three of the Kao plans regarding Pakistan, she directed Kao to go step by step instead of executing all at once as it would add more creditability to the operations. She also advised him to start with East Pakistan plan (KBP) first and to execute the remaining ones in the light of the outcome of the first plan.
The research reveals that soon after the formation of RAW, Rameshwar Nath Kao’s first priority was to gather a team of top professionals at the higher level of the agency. For this purpose, he brought in many ‘like-minded officers from the Intelligence Bureau and from the Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre. According to certain media reports, the top wing of RAW in it its early days was comprising of all the well trusted guys of Koa, as majority of them were known gay individuals and were commonly called the Kaoboys of RAW, not only within the agency but also in the media across India and amongst those officials who were not inducted in RAW by Kao, despite being highly capable. Such officials were the main sources of such leaks to the media and also to the young RAW officers.
These Kaoboys were initially given the task of enhancing the capabilities of the agency to the maximum for running the covert operations while a special wing was formed to launch the KBP in East Pakistan. The details of Kao’s Bengla Plan would be discussed at another stage though; the research reveals that RAW launched the Bengla plan soon after its inception. It is worth mentioning here that soon after the inception of RAW, Kao also formed a high profile Monitoring Division, comprising of the retired and serving officers from the Indian army’s corps of Signals.
The basic features of Kao plan were to launch a Psychological Warfare operations in East Pakistan; to communicate with East Pakistani politicians, mainly those belonging to Awami League; to induct many East Pakistani civil servants working in East and West Pakistan and also in Pakistani embassies across the world; to launch extensive media campaign against Pakistan army’s actions in East Pakistan and to project a highly exaggerated picture of plight of the people of East Pakistan in the world media and to organize moots and conferences across the world to highlight the sham miseries of the people of East Pakistan; to establish a sense of deprivation amongst the general public in East Pakistan; to create a feeling of hatred between the people of East Pakistan and West Pakistan through social circles etc. …
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According to some senior International journalists as well as certain security experts and former intelligence official, RAW and specially its Kaoboys were never actually waiting for a formal nod from PMO and they in fact had already started working on Kao Balochistan Plan (KBP-II). RAW had already started contacting Baloch leaders through social activities in foreign countries and a PSYWAR was launched amongst the Baluch people with a crystal clear reference to what happened in East Pakistan and how India helped East Pakistanis to have a separate and independent country. In the meantime RAW also sought agency-to-agency help from its counterpars in former Soviet Union and KGB replied in a positive manner to help RAW implement its Kao plan for Balochistan.
Soon after entering into the Balochistan game, Kao and his team realized that the things in Balochistan were not as easy as those in East Pakistan. They discovered that they did not
have the advantage of having a road link in Balochistan as they had in East Pakistan and secondly the disadvantage was that Pakistani army had total control of Balochistan and a
very strong road link to any part of Balochistan, something that it lacked in case of East Pakistan. The only encouraging point for RAW while starting the Balochistan game was that here they did not have to launch and fund the movement at the grassroots level like in case of the East Pakistan.
In fact in Balochistan, they just needed to lure a handful of Baloch tribal leaders, specially young ones who were very much attracted towards fun life of West, and rest was to be done by these tribal leaders. After making this assessment, RAW decided to go-ahead with the KPB-II. However it got a shock from KGB when KGB expressed its inability to provide any strategic or tactical help for Balochistan plan due to KGB’s lack of resources to carry out any deep sea covert operation in the hot waters of Indian Ocean and the Arabian sea however it promised every help and support for the cause in any other shape, at a later stage. Some experts say that KGB’s abrupt nod for joining RAW in Balochistan game could also be seen in the backdrop of cold war era rivalry between CIA and KGB as KGB was constantly looking to hit CIA hard anywhere in the world at first available opportunity during that era and since KGB knew that CIA would feel deeply hurt by its joint operation with RAW in Balochistan and so it offered all its help and support, even without approval from the higher level of the Soviet government.
The irony of this situation is that today CIA itself is fully embedded with RAW in the Balochistan game.