THE HUNT FOR KOHINOOR BOOK 2 OF THE THRILLER SERIES FEATURING MEHRUNISA Read Online Free PDF Page B

consciousness.
    Therein lay the problem.
    Jag Mishra pursed his mouth. As the Director, Pakistan Desk he was responsible for the wellbeing of his agents. And Harry was simply the best operative he’d ever had. They had started together as batch mates from the Indian Foreign Service who were then recruited as intelligence officers. The intelligence failure that led to the Sino-Indian War in 1962 had prompted then Prime Minister Nehru to order a dedicated foreign intelligence agency, which in a later avatar became the present day RAW.
    When Jag Mishra and Harry were moved to RAW in 1978, the agency did not have its own cadres, choosing to pick the best talent from other services such as the police and military. RAW was structured on the lines of the CIA and Harry and Jag had trained in the US and Israel. When things started to heat up in the Indian state of Punjab in the ’80s due to a separatist movement that was actively sponsored by Pakistan, Harry was brought on the case. A Sikh by religion, Harry had an instinctive understanding of what drove the disgruntled militants. Additionally, he had grown up with Punjabi and Urdu, vernaculars of Pakistan.
    Harry went on to mastermind an operation that would scuttle Pakistan’s support for the separatist Khalistan movement in Indian Punjab. In the early ’80s, the ISI, the Inter Services Intelligence agency of Pakistan, had s et up clandestine camps to train and arm Khalistani recruits in Pakistan’s Punjab Province and the North West Frontier Province. During this time, the ISI received large sums from Saudi Arabia and the CIA to arm Afghan mujahidin against Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The ISI diverted part of these funds and arms to the Khalistani terrorists.
    Meanwhile, RAW had a close liaison relationship with KHAD, the Afghan intelligence agency. Angry at Pakistan’s meddling in its internal affairs, KHAD was paying them back by monitoring the activities of Sikh militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas on the AfPak border and relaying information to RAW. This relationship was further strengthened when the foundation was laid for a trilateral cooperation involving the RAW, KHAD, and the Soviet KGB.  
    Harry proposed setting up a covert group, Counter Intelligence Team-Z – CIT-Z – directed at Khalistani groups. The ‘Z’ in the acronym was for Zamzama. Also known as Kim’s Gun, for its stellar mention in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim , it was a large bore cannon, one of the largest ever made in the subcontinent. As Kipling had eulogized, ‘Who hold Zam-Zammah, that “fire-breathing dragon”, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot’. CIT-Z was Harry’s bold plan to wrest control out of ISI’s hands by taking the battle into the heart of Pakistan.
    CIT-Z was given the mandate to carry out a low-grade but steady campaign of bombings in major Pakistani cities. Soon, the cities of Karachi and Lahore, the business and political capitals of Pakistan, started to shake, forcing the ISI to the negotiating table with RAW. Fresh rules of engagement on Punjab were crafted. It was agreed that Pakistan would not carry out activities in Indian Punjab as long as RAW refrained from creating mayhem inside Pakistan.
    In the wake of the agreement, the cross-border trafficking of arms and funds was suspended, snipping the lifeline of the Khalistan separatist movement. Harry won that round and solidified his credentials as the master operator on Pakistan. Just when it looked like nothing could go wrong for him, his life took a turn.
    In 1994 Harry was in a covert meeting with a Najib loyalist, a KHAD operative in a remote outpost outside of Kabul, when a shell exploded near them. The high-pitched ominous whistle, followed by a thunderous explosion with no visible combatant, impelled the KHAD operative to flee. In that second or two between the whistle and the explosion Harry had quickly hit the ground and curled up into a ball. He watched