The Many Faces of Bukesh | Pakistan's Attempts at Espionage

I returned home with four hours of sleep today. Had a fun sleepover with a couple friends and when I returned home to complete my missions, I opened the article tab and found a rather interesting article: https://app.warera.io/article/6a819af4ce6f4870aaf24345

Chancellor's articles are always a delight to read. This particular one was about who Chancellor calls "The man, the myth, the legend: https://app.warera.io/user/6991eb8d6bb70e191f95facd" - a level 36 account that moved from India to Pakistan, and eventually became a two-time congress member under https://app.warera.io/user/69d54e7e7d34d2176bcfcb03's term as president.

Unlike Pakistan, we don't claim ownership for this account. This one was known under the alias "Dinoo" and probably claimed the identity of "BukeshKumar" while his namesake's hype was still high. We believe that he acted on his own accord while doing damage in Brazil and France.

How we caught Pakistan's Bukesh was an entirely different ordeal. Once suspicions arose based on his weird activity, we decided we would verify him on voice call. Our glorious president https://app.warera.io/user/68f4fbd18159a0ed534b5277 got on a Discord VC with him, and we asked him to share his location on Google Maps with us, at least the area in which he lived in order to verify his identity, which he agreed to (to clarify, we obviously wouldn't dox him, or anyone that trusts us with their information). The map he showed proved to be interesting, on whose sidebar had his actual location, Lahore (a city in Pakistan, for those of you who didn't know).

Subsequently, he was banned from our server, and as all good things come to an end, we saw to it that his saga reached its conclusion. However, it was nice that Bukesh held hope in us. He wrote some nice ban appeals, but we couldn't take him back sadly.

Coming back to the player of the hour, India lays no claim to him. It would make no sense to do damage against our friends in the OU (We quite like France actually 🥰), or against Brazil either - both battles where India doesn't have orders.

But let's think about it the other way. What if https://app.warera.io/user/6991eb8d6bb70e191f95facd was actually an Indian spy. An account that lasted in Pakistan for months, without discovery. It would mean that https://app.warera.io/user/6991eb8d6bb70e191f95facd was sent to Pakistan during the time when https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a29edc6ee031e842c839766's very own leader, https://app.warera.io/user/695041f32b332672a6278aff, who was India's MoFA at the time. Pakistan would have obviously received a tip-off, which would have led to a Pakistani exposé a couple months ago (you have to give them some credit, the Pakistani's are pretty quick with their articles). BukeshKumar might as well have been a Pakistani spy in India, trying to learn the ropes and extract information.

This reminder about Bukesh's infiltration led me to his account, https://app.warera.io/user/6a29b3029090c5780a3b2ab9 (the main was https://app.warera.io/user/6a25b60f0de023654d299f30) which was sadly banned for using multiple accounts. Something that I found interesting was that this account worked for https://app.warera.io/user/69d54e7e7d34d2176bcfcb03's company until the end.

Like I said, unfortunately good things come to an end. Like his breaking of the game rules, unfortunately Bukesh's discord work is sloppy too. The account that he came to India with has been spotted in the https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7e5 (we obviously tipped them off too!). Looks like Bukesh https://app.warera.io/user/6a7b2cdf5ba5c933688c115f decided to make a return as Pakistan's American multi.

I'd like to quote Chancellor.

After failing to defeat Pakistan on the map, the objective now appears to be shifting toward Pakistan's alliances and NAPs.

The goal? Create conflict between Pakistan and its partners and damage its diplomatic relationships.

If you cannot defeat Pakistan directly, apparently the next strategy is to make Pakistan fight its own friends.

That is not victory.

That is desperation.

This poses an important question. What is desperation? Is it claiming that other countries made multiple accounts to spy on a country? Or is it spying on the very countries you made peace with? Because it seems like Pakistan's done both. Sounds like desperation to me.

Food for thought guys. Much love!