Indian Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) RK Dhowan on Monday confirmed that Research and Analysis (RAW) officer Kulbhushan Yadav had served in the Indian navy.
“Don’t remember anything of him, only know he was in Navy. After that no contact,” an Indian news agency quoted Dhowan as saying.
Don’t remember anything of him,only know he was in Navy.After that no contact-Navy Chief RK Dhowan on alleged RAW officer arrested in Pak
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 18, 2016
Earlier, the Indian government confirmed Yadav as Indian citizen but rejected the allegation that he had acted at its behest.
In a video released by the Pakistani authorities last month, Yadav confessed to having funded Baloch insurgents.
He claimed that he was recruited by RAW in 2013, but added that he established “a base” in Iran’s Chabahar 10 years earlier, making clandestine journeys to Karachi and Balochistan.
Yadav claimed to be a serving officer in the Navy, scheduled for retirement in 2022.
In November 2003, Yadav obtained a passport (E6934766) from Pune, identifying him by the pseudonym Hussein Mubarak Patel.
Born in 1968 (according to the passport), Yadav joined the National Defence Academy in 1987, and was commissioned as a Naval engineer in 1990.
Soon after his arrest in Balochistan province, Pakistan‘s foreign ministry summoned the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad to lodge a protest over his illegal entry into Pakistan. It said the man was involved in violence in Balochistan province and the city of Karachi.
