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[Page 2] Previously by A.S. Dulat and Aditya Sinha Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years (2015) Previously by Aditya Sinha The CEO Who Lost His Head (2017) Death of Dreams: A Terrorist’s Tale (2000) Farooq Abdullah: Kashmir’s Prodigal Son (1996) Forthcoming from Asad Durrani Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters (2018) [Page 3] THE SPY CHRONICLES RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace A.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani and Aditya Sinha [Page 4] To my late parents, Shamsher and Raj, who spent many joyous hours playing bridge with two successive High Commissioners of Pakistan in India: Syed Fida Hussain, my father’s former ICS colleague, and Abdul Sattar. —A.S. Dulat To all the faceless agents who take great risks in the service of their country. —Asad Durrani To my parents, Neelam and Chandreshwar Narain Sinha, who, in England during 1965-71, were best friends with Gulshan and Nazir Hussain, immigrants from Lahore. —Aditya Sinha [Page 5] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Contents Preface Introduction I: SETTING THE STAGE ‘Even if we were to write fiction, no one would believe us’ The Accidental Spymaster Brotherhood to the Rescue II: THE SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION Pakistan’s Deep State ISI Vs RAW The CIA and Other Agencies The Intelligence Dialogues III: KASHMIR Status Quo The Core K-word Amanullah Gilgiti’s Dreams of Independence Kashmir: The Modi Years The Unloved Dr Farooq Abdullah Take What You Can Get IV: KABUKI India and Pakistan: ‘Almost’ Friends Lonely Pervez Musharraf Modi’s Surprise Moves The Doval Doctrine The Hardliners BB, Mian Saheb and Abbasi Good Vibrations, India-Pakistan V: THE FLASHPOINTS [Page 6] 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. Hafiz Saeed and 26/11 Kulbhushan Jadhav Talks and Terror Surgical Strike The Politics of War VI: NEW GREAT GAME The Deal for Osama bin Laden Selfish Self-interests in Afghanistan Donald Trump, Nudger-in-chief Pakistan’s Pal, Putin VII: LOOKING AHEAD Forge Structure or Break Ice? Council of Spies Akhand Bharat Confederation Doctrine Deewangi Khatam Notes Index About the Book About the Authors Copyright [Page 7] If only somehow you could have been mine, what would not have been possible in the world? —Agha Shahid Ali, ‘The Country without a Post Office’ [Page 8] Preface In the dedication, A.S. Dulat and I have each mentioned India-Pakistan friendships that were deep and, silly as it may sound, beautiful. It is a growing fear that in the age of shouting heads on TV and hyper-nationalistic NRIs, we are reminiscing about a bygone era. All hope is not lost—my elder daughter was best friends with a Karachi-ite during her undergraduate years at New York University. On the whole, however, she seems part of a shrinking minority, and a window of opportunity for goodwill between the people of the two nations may be closing. It is to keep that window open, and show that through the window one may see endless possibilities, that this book was written. The hostilities that are ceasefire