Kashmir Singh admits he was a Indian RAW intelligence agency spy in Pakistan

Local Friday, March 7th, 2008

CHANDIGARCH: Kashmir Singh, who was freed from Pakistani jail after 35 years, on Friday admitted that he was an Indian spy and did his best to serve the country, but deplored that successive governments at the Centre did nothing for his family.

“After my arrest in 1974, the successive
governments did nothing for my family. I did the duty assigned to me as
a spy, but the government after my arrest did not bother to spend a
single penny for my family,” a calm and composed looking Singh, who was
accompanied by his wife Paramjeet Kaur, told reporters here.

Sixty-seven-year-old Singh thanked God for being kind to him and
said the various governments at the Centre did nothing for any of the prisoners
languishing in various jails in Pakistan.

“The Central government
did not bother to take care of my family following my arrest. The government
does only the paper work,” he said.

Asked whether he was sent to
Pakistan by the Indian Military Intelligence and the route he took to go there,.

“I was paid Rs 400 as salary…as per duty, I went to serve the
country,” he said.

Asked what he would like to say for some other
people who are working in similar kind of professions, Singh said “I was a spy
and did my duty…about others I will not comment…I am not President of the
country to give reply to such queries”.

Singh, who was lodged in
seven different jails in Pakistan, said “I will not tell the story of my ordeal
in Pakistani prisons as it will damage the cases of about 100 other such
prisoners languishing in jails there as spies”.

“Only I can say that I am a
firm believer of God and even offered

namaz

and kept

roza

(fast) in the Pakistani jails,” he
said.

When asked how she managed to sustain her family, Kaur said “I
worked as maid”.

“After my husband’s arrest, the Central government
gave no compensation to the family and left me in lurch,” she said.

He said in Pakistani prisons he was known by the name of ‘Ibrahim’.

Earlier, Singh, along with his wife, met Punjab
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in Chandigarh.

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