India, May 2 -- Since the Narendra Modi government took over in 2014, India has been able to increase the cost of terrorism on Pakistan and perpetrators within by regularly busting terror modules or by military retaliation against camps across the border.

However, one of the main focuses of the government since Amit Shah took over as Home Minister has been counter-intelligence (CI). Often neglected by the previous regimes, the national security establishment has put CI on the front burner by taking action on foreign intelligence, their networks and their operatives within India. Before this, there was hardly any check on western intelligence spreading their political and military tentacles within India apart from usual suspects-Pakistan'...