If the media reports are to be believed then National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has led the operations in which Indian Army carried out a surgical strike across LoC, destroying 7 terror “launchpads” or temporary bases used by militants – located between 1km and 3km across the LoC.
Ajit Doval, who was selected by PM Narendra Modi as India’s National Security Advisor (NSA), is the most powerful person in India after the PM Narendra Modi.Doval, aged 70, is the country’s spy master and is known to send shivers down the spines of India’s enemies. Pakistan is always worried about him.
Ajit Doval is the 5th and current National Security Adviser. Doval, like any other NSA, works closely along side the Prime Minister.
Doval has previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2004-05, after spending a decade as the head of its operations wing. Ajit Doval is also the youngest person to win the Police Medal and the prestigious President’s Police Medal.
Recently, Doval was responsible for getting back 45 nurses from Iraq when the nation was under fire from ISIS.Doval was also India’s main negotiator with the hijackers of Indian Airlines’ flight IC-814 that was hijacked and taken to Kandahar in 1999.
He was in the Golden Temple in the days leading up to the Indian Army’s Operation Blue Star. He posed as a Pakistani Spy, gained the militants plans, their intel, reinforcements available to them and various other valuable information.
Doval spent 7 years as a secret operative in Lahore, Pakistan.
In the 1980s, the Mizoram National Front was breaking India’s back with insurgency. Doval is renowned to have infiltrated the underground Mizo National Front, weaned away half a dozen of its top commanders and all but broke the back of the MNF.
