The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace - Hardcover

A.S Dulat; Aditya Sinha; Asad Durrani

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9352779258 ISBN 13: 9789352779253

Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2018

Synopsis

SOME TIME in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India s external intelligence agency, the other of ISI, its Pakistani counterpart. As they could not meet in their home countries, the conversations, guided by journalist Aditya Sinha, took place in cities like Istanbul, Bangkok and Kathmandu. On the table were subjects that have long haunted South Asia, flashpoints that take lives regularly. It was in all ways a deep dive into the politics of the subcontinent, as seen through the eyes of two spymasters. Among the subjects: Kashmir, and a missed opportunity for peace; Hafiz Saeed and 26/11; Kulbhushan Jadhav; surgical strikes; the deal for Osama bin Laden; how the US and Russia feature in the India-Pakistan relationship; and how terror undermines the two countries attempts at talks. When the project was first mooted, General Durrani laughed and said nobody would believe it even if it was written as fiction. At a time of fraught relations, this unlikely dialogue between two former spy chiefs from opposite sides a project that is the first of its kind may well provide some answers.

About this title

About the Author:

A.S. Dulat was Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing, 1999-2000. General Asad Durrani was Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, 1990-91. Aditya Sinha is a writer and a journalist living on the outskirts of Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins India
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 9352779258
• ISBN 13: 9789352779253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344