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Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary | New Delhi
By Devesh K. Pandey
NEW DELHI, NOV. 27. Mohammad Saghir, the alleged Pakistani mole who was arrested by the Delhi police from New Delhi railway station this past Thursday, had enrolled himself in a language course at the Hungarian Cultural Centre here apparently to build up contacts with government officials, including those from defence services, who take up such courses as part of their job. According to a senior police officer, Saghir's activities revealed that he planned to stay in the Capital for a long time and strike friendship with people in prominent posts in order to extract information needed by his Lahore-based handler, Major Rahimullah. His decision to take up the job of a direct sales agent with Standard Chartered Bank appears to have been a calculated move which would have enabled him to meet such people at regular intervals and establish long-term relations with them. Chasing the same goal, Saghir joined a Hungarian language course where he had the opportunity to build contacts with government officials enrolled there to enhance their career. It is learnt that such part-time language courses are popular among the staff and officers of various government departments, including defence. In fact, in some of departments these courses are compulsory. Saghir also became a member of film clubs at the Hungarian and the French cultural centres where prominent people, including foreign nationals, come to watch movies. This move could also have helped Saghir in entering the circle of top ranking officials. "All these things suggest that Saghir had been sent here with the aim of exploiting him as a mole for a long period of time, may be several years, " said a senior police officer.
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