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NEW DELHI, July 4: Former chief of India's spy wing RAW, AS Dulat, has said that Indian intelligence agencies have paid militants, separatists and politicians in Jammu and Kashmir to tackle the situation in the valley.
Speaking to National Channel and other media like Hindustan Times, Dulat, whose book Kashmir - The Vajpayee Years has just been released, said: Nobody is immune to bribes, not the militants, not politicians and not the separatists. Over the years, they have all been paid by intelligence agencies. We paid money to demonstrate that what the ISI can do, we can do better, except kill people.
Dulat was an Intelligence Bureau officer in Jammu and Kashmir in 1988. So whats wrong? What is there to be so shocked or scandalized by. Its done the world over, he told .
Dwelling on his book Dulat said the Indian government had quite often paid for the air fares, medical treatment and general upkeep of even hardened pro-Pakistan separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Dulat told that Indias most wanted terrorist Syed Salahuddin had been in touch with him and was ready to leave Pakistan and return to India.
He defended use of money in the Kashmir valley to counter the ISI. |
