Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is trying to use to lure soft targets among future Indian Defence Force personnel currently taking National Defence Courses (NDC) in Dhaka.
ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency, is trying to get these potential officers to work for them once they finish their courses.
The method: Honey traps or money.
The Pakistan ISI unit in the Bangladesh capital has been given this task. The man in charge?: Col. Akhtar Hamid, the military attache of the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka.
Almost 40 potential Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force officers are taking various courses at the National Defence College in Dhaka, in an exchange programme.
A report published in August said Indian intelligence agencies had warned officers to be alert to “increasing attempts by Pakistan and Chinese agencies to honeytrap Indian officers using attractive women.”
The report described the modus operandi in detail: First, an Urdu-speaking Pakistani woman or English-speaking Chinese woman contacts the officer on social media. Next, a meeting. Then, the courtship. Finally, a video is used to blackmail the officer, and extract information about India's Armed Forces.
