RAVINDER KAUSHIK THE 'BLACK TIGER'
Ravinder Kaushik, the hero of this factual story, was just 23 when he first went undercover for RAW. Follow his story.
Kaushik is regarded as India's best spy to ever penetrate the ranks of the Pakistan army. Kaushik loved theatre and performing characters as a teenager and that's how RAW spotted him. It is said that Kaushik had learned Urdu, acquainted himself with Muslim religious texts and the terrain of Pakistan during his training. He underwent circumcision also in the process.
He was sent to Pakistan with a new name- Nabi Ahmed Shakir, with all his records in India destroyed. He completed his LLB from Karachi University after penetrating into Pakistan and joined Pakistan Army and became a commissioned officer. Eventually, he was promoted to the rank of a Major. On the personal front, Shakir married a girl named Amanat, and became father of a girl.
From 1979 to 1983 he passed on critical information to the Indian defense forces which were of great help. Because of the valuable information being sent by Nabi Ahmed he became famous as 'The Black Tiger' in Indian defense circles, a name conferred by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi herself.
As per a report in The Telegraph, when another officer from RAW was sent in the name of Inyat Masiha, to get in touch with him, inadvertently blew his cover to the Pakistani forces upon interrogation in September 1983. He was sentenced to death in 1985 for spying but the punishment was later reduced to life imprisonment.
Kaushik was tortured for two years at an interrogation centre in Sialkot, jailed in Mianwali for another 16 years and was left to die. In November 2001, Kaushik succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease and died in the New Central Multan Jail. He was buried behind that jail.
Jai Hind
Ravinder Kaushik, the hero of this factual story, was just 23 when he first went undercover for RAW. Follow his story.
Kaushik is regarded as India's best spy to ever penetrate the ranks of the Pakistan army. Kaushik loved theatre and performing characters as a teenager and that's how RAW spotted him. It is said that Kaushik had learned Urdu, acquainted himself with Muslim religious texts and the terrain of Pakistan during his training. He underwent circumcision also in the process.
He was sent to Pakistan with a new name- Nabi Ahmed Shakir, with all his records in India destroyed. He completed his LLB from Karachi University after penetrating into Pakistan and joined Pakistan Army and became a commissioned officer. Eventually, he was promoted to the rank of a Major. On the personal front, Shakir married a girl named Amanat, and became father of a girl.
From 1979 to 1983 he passed on critical information to the Indian defense forces which were of great help. Because of the valuable information being sent by Nabi Ahmed he became famous as 'The Black Tiger' in Indian defense circles, a name conferred by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi herself.
As per a report in The Telegraph, when another officer from RAW was sent in the name of Inyat Masiha, to get in touch with him, inadvertently blew his cover to the Pakistani forces upon interrogation in September 1983. He was sentenced to death in 1985 for spying but the punishment was later reduced to life imprisonment.
Kaushik was tortured for two years at an interrogation centre in Sialkot, jailed in Mianwali for another 16 years and was left to die. In November 2001, Kaushik succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease and died in the New Central Multan Jail. He was buried behind that jail.
Jai Hind
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