Sources said Foreign Office officials apprised Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale over the arrest of RAW’s serving Indian Navy commander from Balochistan.
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Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti confirmed the arrest from near Balochistan’s Chaman area on border with Afghanistan. Maps of different installations and sites were also recovered from his possession.
The Foreign Office also intends to seek the Indian High Commissioner’s stance on yesterday’s arrest of the alleged RAW officer.
Bugti congratulated the country’s intelligence forces on the high-level capture.
He was arrested in Balochistan some days ago. The RAW agent Yadav has relations with a Baloch separatists’ organisation, they said. He said that the apprehended agent was being further investigated. He said Yadev has confessed having indulged in recruiting agents from Balochistan and Karachi and transporting them to Afghanistan for training in subversive activities. Television channels reported that the arrested man was a serving Indian naval officer and deputed to work for India’s external intelligence agency RAW.
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Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest but least developed province, has been battling a years-long separatist insurgency that the Army has repeatedly claimed is “terrorism” promoted by states hostile to Pakistan such as India.
