The government has revamped the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) — a move that came amid speculations about India's possible retaliation to the Pahalgam terror attack view of its cross border linkages.
It is learnt that former R&AW chief Alok Joshi has been appointed as NSAB chairman.
NSAB is an advisory body that provides inputs to the National Security Council Secretariat.
The new members appointed to the NSAB are former Western Air Commander Air Marshal PM Sinha, former Southern Army Commander Lt Gen A K Singh and Rear Admiral (retd) Monty Khanna, people familiar with the matter said.
Former diplomat B. Venkatesh Varma and retired IPS Rajiv Ranjan Verma have also been appointed to the NSAB as its members, they said.
Who is Alok Joshi?
The former Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Alok Joshi hails from Lucknow and is an IPS officer from the 1976 Haryana cadre and a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alumnus. In 2005 he served as the as Joint Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2005 and went on to become RAW Special Secretary in 2010. Just two years later, in 2012 he was made the RAW chief.
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