AJIT DOVAL

By
SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI
B.Sc (Silver Medalist)
M.Sc (Applied Physics)
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 EARLY LIFE
• Doval was born in 20 January 1945 in Ghiri
Banelsyun village in Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand.
Doval's father was an officer in the Indian Army.

• He received his early education at the Ajmer Military

School in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He graduated with a
master's degree in economics from the University of
Agra in 1967.

• After graduation he started preparing for IPS.

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• During the Mizo National Front (MNF) insurgency,
Doval won over six of Laldenga's seven
commanders.

• He was inside the Golden Temple in Amritsar in

1988 before Operation Black Thunder to collect
critical information.

• Doval spent six years in Indian High Commission in

Islamabad, Pakistan. He went to Kashmir in 1990 and
persuaded militants to become counter-insurgents
targeting hardline anti-India terrorists. This set the way
for state elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 1996
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• Doval joined the IPS in 1968 in the Kerala cadre. He
was actively involved in anti-insurgency operations in
Mizoram and Punjab.

• Doval was one of three negotiators who negotiated

the release of passengers from IC-814 in Kandahar
in 1999.

• Uniquely, he has the experience of being involved in

the termination of all 15 hijackings of Indian Airlines
aircraft from 1971–1999.

• In the headquarters, he headed IB's operations wing for

over a decade and was founder Chairman of the Multi
Agency Centre (MAC), as well as of the Joint Task
Force on Intelligence (JTFI)
 RETIREMENT
• Doval retired in January 2005 as Director, Intelligence
Bureau. In December 2009, he became the founding
Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation.

• Doval has remained actively involved in the discourse

on national security in India. Besides writing editorial
pieces for several leading newspapers and journals, he
has delivered lectures on India's security challenges and
foreign policy objectives at several renowned
government and non-governmental institutions.

• In 2009 and 2011 he co-wrote two reports on "Indian

Black Money Abroad In Secret Banks and Tax Havens“.
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• On 30 May 2014, Doval was appointed as India's fifth
National Security Advisor.

• In June 2014, Doval played a crucial role in ensuring the

secure return of 46 Indian nurses who were trapped in a
hospital in Tikrit, Iraq.

• Although, the exact circumstances of their release

are unclear, on 5 July 2014, ISIS militants handed
the nurses to authorities at Erbil city and two
specially arranged planes by the Indian Government
brought them back home to Kochi.
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• Along with Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag,
Doval planned a military operation against militants
operating out of Myanmar. The mission was said to be a
success with 50 militant casualties.

• He is widely credited for the doctrinal shift in Indian

national security policy in relation to Pakistan. Switching
from 'Defensive' to 'Defensive Offensive' as well as the
'Double Squeeze Strategy.‘
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• It is speculated that the September 2016 Indian surgical
strikes in Pakistan were his brain child, which were
extremely effective in neutralizing targets hostile to India

• Doval is widely credited along with Foreign Secretary S.

Jaishankar and Indian Ambassador to China Vijay
Keshav Gokhale, for resolving Doklam Standoff through
diplomatic channels and negotiation
 AWARDS

• Doval was the youngest police officer to receive the

Police Medal for meritorious service. He was given the
award after six years in the police (the norm is at least
17 years' service).

• He was later awarded the President's Police Medal.

• In 1988, Doval was granted 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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