About the Book: The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship
When the powers that be in Delhi think of Farooq Abdullah, they think of former
RandAW chief A.S. Dulat, too. The AbdullahDulat connection unlikely, even
dangerous has shaped Kashmirs history in ways that few understand. One was
Indias top intelligence officer, the other its most defiant Kashmiri leader.
They should have been enemies. Instead, they built a quiet, complicated alliance
that has outlasted governments, betrayals and shadow wars. From the explosion of
militancy in the 1990s to the hijacking of Air Indias IC-814 in 1999 and the
abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, their