Ajit Kumar Doval

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Ajit Kumar Doval was the director of the Intelligence Bureau, India 2004-2005, after spending a decade as the head of its operations wing. He was the first police officer in India to get Kirti Chakra. [ [http://www.iiss.org/events-calendar/2006-events-archive/april-2006/copy-of-round-table-discussion---mr-ajit-doval Bio details, International Institute For Strategic Studies] ] [ [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/768811.cms "Ajit Doval to be the new IB chief", Times of India, July 7, 2004] ]

Work

He is widely known to be amongst the very best Intelligence officers India has ever seen He is an IPS officer from the 1968 batch of the Kerala cadre. He was actively involved in the Mizo conflict, Punjab conflict, and Kashmir issue. [http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/apr/21inter.htm 'Bangladeshi infiltration is the biggest threat' ] ]

In Mizoram conflict, Laldenga of Mizo National Front had claimed that Doval had won over 6 of his 7 army commanders. He spent long periods of time incognito with the Mizo National Army in the Arakan in Burma and inside Chinese territory.Fact|date=February 2007

In Punjab he was behind the rescue of Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu and the success of Operation Black Thunder. Doval was actually inside the Harimandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1989 during Operation Black Thunder when security forces were charging in to flush out terrorists from there. He is said to have planned out the Punjab state elections of 1992.Fact|date=February 2007

Doval spent six years in Pakistan.Fact|date=February 2007 He went to Kashmir in 1990 and persuaded militants (like Kuka Parrey) to become counter-insurgents targeting hardline anti-India terrorists.Fact|date=February 2007 This set the way for state elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 1996.

Doval was India's main negotiator with the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-184 in Kandahar in 1999.

He retired from service on January 31, 2005 from the position of Director, Intelligence Bureau. Presently , he is held in high esteem as one of India's well-known Foremost analysts & commentators on strategic national and international issues. His writings have been published widely in International journals, domestic and international media, and he is known for its clear insight and vision for Indian and global security issues. He has spoken extensively nationally and internationally on strengthening Indian security apparatus and closer cooperation amongst security forces globally.

Awards

Doval was the youngest police officer ever to get the Indian Police Medal for meritorious service. Fact|date=February 2007He got it after six years in the police (the norm is at least 17 years' service).Fact|date=February 2007 He was later awarded the President's Police Medal.

In 1988, Doval was awarded one of the highest gallantry awards, the Kirti Chakra, becoming the first police officer to receive a medal previously given only as a military honour.

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External links

* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/778332.cms "The IB chief who dined with militants", Times of India, July 15, 2004]
* [http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/apr/21inter.htm "Bangladeshi infiltration is the biggest threat" (interview by Sheela Bhatt), Rediff news, April 21, 2006]
* [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060806/edit.htm#1 "Pak must destroy terror infrastructure: Doval" (interview), The Tribune, August 6, 2006]
* [http://policing.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/extract/1/1/63 "Islamic Terrorism in South Asia and India's Strategic Response", Oxford University Journal of Policing, 2007]
* [http://www.4shared.com/dir/7539775/89bbc429/sharing.html "CLSA U Series: Keeping India safe", CLSA U Series, May 2008]