RAW Activities

Subterfuge and confusing the enemy is part of normal RAW tactics. The RAW bombings are not simple affairs of blowing up builidngs or crowded markets. Some of the bombings have been disguised as attacks on other faiths or communal riots beteween the faiths. RAW strategically places bombs in mosques, imam baras and also in rival religious factions. This exacerbates rivalries that have been exacerbated by sophisticated psy-ops.

RAW and terrorist activities: Apart from launching the propaganda, the economy and psychological warfare the RAW has been indulging in a series of terrorist activities in Pakistan. Many of the major terrorist attacks, carried out in Pakistan by RAW have been acknowledged by independent international observers such as Foundation of American Society (FAS), owing to the overwhelming evidences left by the agency behind.

RAW’s trail of terror in the Pakistani Provinces:

• R.A.W. considers Sindh and Balochistan province and now FATA as well to be Pakistan’s soft underbelly.
• It has made it the prime target for sabotage and subversion.
• R.A.W. has enrolled an extensive network of agents and antigovernment elements and is convinced that with a little push restless things will revolt.
• Taking full advantage of the agitation in Sindh in 1983, and the periodic ethnic riots, R.A.W. has attempted to penetrate Sindh and cultivated dissidents and secessionists, thereby creating hard-liners unlikely to allow peace to return to Sindh.
• R.A.W. is also similarly involved in Balochistan supporting the cold war relic, the BLA.
• R.A.W. has been attempting to confuse the ground situation in Kashmir so as to keep the world’s attention away from the gross human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
• RAW and ISI Phobia: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (I.S.I.), being almost 20 years older than R.A.W. and having acquired a much higher standard of efficiency in its functioning, has become the prime target of R.A.W.’s designs.
• The I.S.I. is considered to be a stumbling block in R.A.W.’s operations and has been made a target of massive misinformation and propaganda campaigns.
• The tirade against I.S.I. continues unabated.
• The idea is to keep I.S.I. on the defensive by alleging in multi factorial issues whatsoever.
• R.A.W.’s fixation on I.S.I. has taken the shape of I.S.I.-phobia, as in India every one traces the origin of all happenings and shortcomings to the I.S.I.
• Whenever and wherever there is a kidnapping, a bank robbery, a financial scandal, a bomb blast, or what have you, the I.S.I. is deemed to have been involved.

The Government of Pakistan is reluctant to assign responsibility for terrorist activity to the Indian Government, even when evidence can be verified. Terrorist activities in Pakistan attributed to the clandestine activities of Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies that have credibly been vested are and include:

• It is learnt that the US authorities strongly believe that RAW and some other Indian intelligence agencies have been the only source of terrorism in Pakistan.
• It is learnt that experts are of the firm view that RAW, India’s external intelligence agency, is not the only secret agency of India, assigned the duties to carry out subversive activities in Pakistan but in fact several other Indian agencies have also been given similar assignments.
• According to The Daily Mail findings, a Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) at Delhi assigned terrorist and sabotage duties to the Intelligence Bureau, RAW, Military Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, Air Intelligence, Special Frontier Force, Joint Cipher Bureau etc. All these agencies have been actively executing plans of terrorism formulated by the succeeding governments in many countries of the region, particularly Pakistan.
• RAW allegedly executed a hijacking of an Indian Airliner to Lahore in 1971 which was attributed to the Kashmiris, to give a terrorist dimension to the Kashmiri national movement. However soon the extent of RAW’s involvement was made public.