The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a dual national – involved in anti-state activities and a banned outfit – while he was trying to enter Pakistan via the Torkham border crossing. A statement issued by the investigation agency named the accused as Umar Dawood Khattak from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, and said he was arrested while carrying a Pakistani passport, an identity card and an Afghan passport. After the arrest, Khattak was moved to FIA’s Anti-Human Trafficking and Smuggling wing in Peshawar. Further investigation revealed that Khattak had made multiple trips to India on Afghan passport, unarguably to get instructions. He has also been placed on the exit control list (ECL) by law enforcement agencies (LEAs). According to FIA Deputy Director Shahid, Umar Dawood Khatak had established a group entitled Pakhtun Liberation Army, and had been creating unrest and anarchy among the Pashtuns.
Last month, the FIA had arrested an Indian national with a fake Pakistani identity card from Gujranwala. Deputy Director FIA Amir Nawaz had said that the Indian national, Pancham Tiwari, hailed from Banaras, and was a businessman in India. Sources said Tiwari had been living in Pakistan for the past decade. He has three children and is married to a Pakistani woman. In his defence, Tiwari told FIA that he was a business partner with Kamran, a Pakistani citizen in 2009. Influenced by Kamran, he abandoned Hinduism and converted to Islam, and was renamed Bilal by Kamran’s uncle. Kamran had offered him a place to stay and gave his sister’s hand in marriage because he could not return to India as a Muslim. In 2016, two agents working for the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s premier spy agency – were arrested from Chaman district in Balochistan in two separate incidents.
After the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s verdict against India and its spy, Kulbhushan Yadav, it was expected that it would demoralize a lot of RAW operatives, many of whom have already vanished without a trace on foreign postings. It appears that Indian RAW has not weaned of the practice of deploying its agents in Pakistan; but Pakistan’s agencies have been successful in nabbing Indian agents, and putting in the dock. In May 2019, Pakistani security forces busted Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) network in Gilgit Baltistan. According to sources, the operation was carried out on a tip-off, and huge amount of arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession of terrorists. In the operation, 14 active members of the Balawaristan National Front were taken into custody, including BNF student wing Chairman Sher Nadir Shahi who was busy in leading anti-Pakistan activities.
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