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Happy 77 to India’s James Bond Ajit Doval

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 1/20/2022 7:58:52 PM

India's fifth and current NSA (National Security Advisor) to the Prime Minister of India, Ajit Doval completes 77 years on Thursday (January 20). He was born in the year 1945 in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. Often called the "James Bond of India", the patriot has spent 40 years of his life in oblivion for the sake of the country's defence. Doval is 1968-batch Indian Police Service (IPS- retired) officer. He joined the service in the Kerala cadre as the Kottayam ASP. He had an impressive career in the Intelligence Bureau, where he served as the director of the IB from 2004-05.
Ajit Doval took his career as a field officer seriously and went to great lengths to do whatever it took to undertake his task. Doval spent 7 years in Pakistan while working for the Indian intelligence agency RAW in the guise of a Muslim. He mastered Urdu and is an expert on Pakistani history, culture and politics. This helped him remain undercover in Pakistan for over 7 years, undertaking various tasks at considerable risk to his life.
Doval also played a key role in the release of 46 Indian nurses who were trapped in Tikrit hospital, Iraq. On June 25, Doval flew to Iraq as a part of a top-secret mission, made contacts with high-level people and bureaucrats in the Iraqi government and convinced the ISIS militants to handover the nurses safely to the authorities at Erbil City.
In 1999, Indian Airlines IC 814 was hijacked to Kandahar. Although India's capitulation to the hijacker's demands was a political decision and subsequently criticised, it was Ajit Doval's deft handling of the situation and negotiation with the hijackers that prevented further loss of life and damage to the aircraft.