Operation Chanakya — RAW Breaks the Back of Kashmir Militancy From Within

 

Year: Early 1990s

By the early 1990s, the Kashmir Valley was burning. ISI was funding and training dozens of militant groups. India's response was not just military — RAW went inside.

Operation Chanakya was the RAW operation in Kashmir to infiltrate various ISI-backed Kashmiri separatist groups and restore peace in the valley. RAW operatives infiltrated the area, collected military intelligence, and provided evidence about ISI's involvement in training and funding Kashmiri separatist groups. 

RAW was successful not only in unearthing the links between the ISI and the separatist groups, but also in infiltrating and neutralizing militancy in the valley. RAW is also credited with creating a split in the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. 

RAW didn't just fight terrorism — it engineered divisions within terrorist organizations, making them fight each other instead of India.