Navi Ahmed would have been a senior officer in the Pakistani army now, saving the lives of Indian soldiers. But Ahmed-agent Ravindra Kaushik to the Indian security establishment-died a miserable death last year in a Pakistani jail after a searing chapter in Indian's espionage history went awry.
Kaushik had been cruising along with final mission Pakistan, penetrating deep and reaching the head of the enemy.
Establishment of the army as a resident agent of the research and analyzing wing (RAW) and doing commendable service as a spy sitting in the right place in enemy land. Till lnyat mashing, an operative send by RAW to contact Kaushik in September. 1983, inadvertently blew the agent's cover.
Kaushik was been captured, tortured for two years at an interrogation center in Sialkot, dumped in mianwali jail for another 16 and left to die. In November 2001, Kaushik succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease. A year after Kaushik died unsung on alien soil, is Jaipur based family is on a mission. They want India to acknowledge and recognize the sacrifice Kaushik has made for his country.
We don't want money. What we want to form the government in recognition of the contribution by agents as they are the real foundation of the security system, said Kaushik's brother R.N.Kaushik.
If the government can honor people's uniforms, why hesitate about undercover cooperatives? He asked calling for a government policy to recognize the work intelligence agent does.it is an appeal few governments will be able to accept. The government rarely recognize in public secret agents-the fearless personal of the security apparatus. Not only that, it is a common practice to disown spies caught in a foreign country Kaushik join RAW in 1975 as a 20 30 years old after graduating from Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan. Trained to act as a resident agent he went to Pakistan assumed the alias of Nabi Ahmed, did his graduation in law, learned Urdu, married there and join the Pakistan army. He was sentenced to death in 1985 for spying but later the punishment was reduced to life imprisonment.
Kaushik security wrote to his family in India, telling them to form the barbarism he was subjected to in a letter, he asked
(Keya Bharat jashe bare Desh ke liye Qurbani Dene wall ko yehi milta hai)
Both Kaushik's brother and ailing 72 years old mother amladevi his father died to shock and heart failure.have a grouse against the government on their pleas scenes 1987 to secure Kaushik's release from Pakistani custody deaf ears. They wrote several letters. But got no response apart from foreign ministry despatches dad his case has been taken up with Pakistan. One such letter from amla Devi 2 prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee read. Had he not been exposed, Kaushik would have been a senior army officer to the Pakistani government buys now and the coming years.
Another one went the government has mover bothered to rescue him, not to talk of consoling and helping his family even on humanitarian grounds. November d tips send medicines on time when Kaushik was dying thought a spy sitting in the right place. Saves the life of at least. 20,000 soldiers his Nation.
Amaladevi had written to several other BJP leaders, including LK Advani and Jaswant Singh but her family has till date not got any benefit due to government servants, not even pension. All the gate is a monthly allowance rupee 500.
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