Ajit Doval  the Indian spy who spent seven years in Pakistan as a Muslim

Known as the significant brain behind India's security and military apparatus under the Modi regime_ the fifth and the current NSA spent seven years as a secret agent in Pakistan. In one of the most significant stints_ Ajit Doval_ as an undercover operative in Pakistan worked to gather intelligence and terror activities_ with Dawood Ibrahim_ known to be on his constant radar.

Doval_ a highly decorated IPS ocer of Kerala Cadre_ who retired as Director Intelligence Bureau in 2005_ who now heads the National Security Council has dealt with the country's most complex international and domestic security challenges.

The current NSA_ considered as James Bond of India_ remained as an undercover agent in Pakistan for seven years posing as a Pakistani Muslim in Lah Here's a video in which Doval shares his experience while spying in Pakistan's Lahore city.

Sharing an incident from his time in Pakistan_ he said that he was once identified as a Hindu by a local from his pierced ears. Doval then underwent plastic surgery to prevent his cover from blowing. Narrating his account_ Doval shared_ "I was coming back from a Masjid. A man sitting in the corner_ who had an intriguing personality and a white beard_ called me. He asked_ are you a Hindu? I replied saying no.

He asked me to come with him_ and took me to a small room and shut the door. He told me_ 'See you are a Hindu. Your ears are pierced.' The place I come from_ as a child there is a tradition to pierce the ear. I told him it was pierced when I was born. He told me_ get plastic surgery of this_ it's not safe to walk like that. Then I got it (plastic surgery) done."

In the late 1980s. Doval snuck inside the Golden Temple posing as a Pakistani agent to the Khalistani militants and passed significant information during Operation Black Thunder in 1988. After his stint as an undercover agent_ Doval worked in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. A close-associate of PM Modi_ Doval is also responsible for master-minding the surgical strike in 2016.

For years Doval has advocated the improvement of internal security capacities and Defence in a practical manner. Unlike the past NSAs who preferred at external issues_ Doval concentrates on building India`s internal capacities.

It is the National Security Advisor to whom intelligence agencies such as the Research and Analysis Wing and Intelligence Bureau report_ rather than directly to the Prime Minister. Due to such vested powers NSA is a prominent and powerful oce in the bureaucracy.