Former RAW chief Rajinder Khanna appointed deputy NSA

January 02, 2018 22:21

Rajinder Khanna, former chief of the country's external intelligence agency RAW, was today appointed as Deputy National Security Adviser, according to an official order.

The post was lying vacant since Arvind Gupta, a former Indian Foreign Service officer, completed his tenure in August last year. Gupta was in August 2014 appointed to the post.

Khanna, a 1978 batch Research and Analysis Wing Service officer, has supervised several counter-terrorism operations and is considered an expert on Pakistan and Islamic terrorism.

Khanna is at present Officer on Special Duty (Neighbourhood Studies) in the National Security Council Secretariat.

Neighbourhood Studies prepares policy papers of neighbouring countries including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

-- PTI

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