🕵️BLACK TIGER, BROKEN NATION: INDIA'S FORGOTTEN SPY WHO BECAME A PAKISTANI MAJOR...
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The Spy Who Came In From the Stage
Before he was Pakistan's Major Nabi Ahmed Shakir, he was just Ravinder Kaushik, a boy from Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. He mimicked politicians for fun, wrote Urdu couplets on the side, and had no idea that his thespian skills would land him in the hall of Indian espionage legends... and then rot him in a Pakistani jail with no exit strategy.
In 1973, he joined RAW. By 1975, he wasn't just playing a role—he was the role. He became Muslim, got circumcised, learned fluent Urdu, graduated in law from Karachi University, and infiltrated the Pakistani Army’s Military Accounts Department.
RAW had sent him to act. Pakistan gave him a gun and a desk.
Welcome to Pakistan. Please Drop Your Identity at the Border.
Imagine the onboarding:
New name: Nabi Ahmed Shakir
New faith: Islam
New city: Karachi
New in-laws: Confused but polite
New wife: Amanat, who never knew she married India’s greatest infiltrator
While other 20-somethings in India were discovering bell bottoms and Amitabh Bachchan, Kaushik was cooking biryani with a side of classified files. He was James Bond meets Ghalib, with a touch of Nehruvian guilt.
The Intelligence Jackpot
His information reportedly saved up to 20,000 Indian lives. His code name? Black Tiger. No relation to the Salman Khan movie, though the plot similarities are eerie.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is said to have bestowed the title personally. It was a proud moment for RAW. And a moment India would later pretend never happened.
The Downfall: Inyat Masih and the World’s Worst Backup Spy
Enter Inyat Masih, RAW’s version of that one guy in every heist movie who forgets the safe combination. Captured. Tortured. And yes, he sang.
Kaushik’s cover was blown. The ISI set a trap with all the subtlety of a Bollywood villain and lured him to a park meeting. He was captured like a bad Tinder date. No backup, no extraction, no diplomatic pressure. Just:
"Oops, sorry bro. The government doesn't know you."
Torture, Betrayal, and 16 Years of Bureaucratic Ghosting
Kaushik was sentenced to death in 1985, later reduced to life imprisonment. But life in Pakistani prisons is like life in Game of Thrones: short, brutal, and nobody gets a happy ending.
Letters smuggled out described his pain:
"Had I been an American, I would’ve been out in three days."
Instead, he rotted in Mianwali Jail. Died in 2001. No wreath. No medal. No PM tweet.
RAW gave him a codename. India gave him amnesia.
Trump Comments:
"Frankly, I would've had him back in three tweets. That’s how you do deals. Not this Gandhi-style ghosting."
"India has spies? Didn’t know. Thought they just exported engineers and spices. Very unfair to the guy."
"This guy was amazing. The Pakistani army promoted him! I might give him a posthumous Medal of Trump."
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Final Thought:
Ravinder Kaushik died a soldier, a spy, a phantom. Forgotten by the nation he served. Betrayed by the bureaucracy that built him.
When patriotism becomes expendable, memory becomes a liability. And that, dear readers, is the ultimate WTF.
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