Main Information Gatherer With Respect To Balakot Airstrike Planned And Executed By IAF Now Made The RAW Boss
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by PM Modi appointed the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers of the 1984 batch as the head of the two spy agencies.
The Cabinet Committee appointed Samant Goel as the new Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief and Kashmir expert Arvind Kumar as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau.
Goel played a significant role in gathering and analyzing all the information which helped the IAF to plan and execute the Balakot Air Strikes on Jaish-e-Mohammed terror outfit deep within Pakistan in February 2019, as well as the surgical strikes conducted in 2016 following the terror attack on Uri base.
This is how RAW and IB should work rather than pass vague information like “ some peole are planning to disrupt / strike at sensitive areas.”
Meanwhile, Kumar, appointed as the IB chief has been looking closely into combating left-wing extremism and has been an expert on Kashmir at the intelligence agency.
After detailed planning done by the Air Operations Branch at the Air HQ and approved by tge Air Chief, On February 26, 12 Mirages having taken off from multiple air bases crossed over into the Pakistani air space and carried out missile attacks on Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Balakot town of Khyber Pakhtunwa province.
The attacks were carried out at 3.30 AM and within a few minutes after dropping the bombs on their designated targets, the Indian Air Force planes returned to their bases.
The aircraft used in the attack belonged to the No 7 and No 9 squadrons of the Indian Air Force and included the non-upgraded planes as the upgraded Mirages of the No 1 squadron did not have the air to ground strike capability at that moment.
As long as our Intelligence agencies continue to provide solid actionable intelligence then our Defence Forces will achieve a very high success rate in their operations. Vague intelligence inputs lead to wastage of valuable time and resources and times may prove fatal too.
