January 2, 2012
CIA Headquarters, Langley Virginia

Agent Dean Schultz stared at the photographs spread over his desk. There were photographs of mountainous terrain showing enriched Uranium activity as shown by the Department of Defense (DoD) satellites.

"This is a breach of the Asia Protocol," agent Schultz nervously tapped the space key on his laptop. It was 6 months ago that he had boarded a Jet Airways flight from New York to New Delhi to meet with Indian Defense Minister Mr. A.K. Anthony. During the secret meeting, Minister Anthony had shown special interest in Schultz's intelligence documents. There was unclear evidence of Chinese military movement along the Nepal-China border. It could have been routine movement but they seemed to have been occuring more frequently. After getting Minister's commitment for the US interest in Asian peace and security, agent Schultz had boarded a plane to Kathmandu to meet with appropriate counterparts.

Agent Tim Wiggins and Tina Gates had come to pick him up at the airport. In their way back he was made aware of the gravity of the situation. Due to the lax security in Nepal borders, many terrorist groups had been using Nepal to make weapon deals. This even included Al Qaida operatives. Agent Gates opened her briefcase and showed surveillance pictures of Raman El Wak Dar. He was considered a dangerous Al Qaida operative who had trained with the Russians in Afghanistan. The picture showed him shaking hands with some Nepali personnel dressed in army fatigue.

Agent Wiggins had briefed him of his mission. "Your mission is to penetrate this outfit and disable any terrorist cell that is operating from Nepal. These photographs were taken in the border of Raxaul and Birgunj. You will be transported to Birgunj at 04:30 hours tomorrow morning."

Dean had always taken a keen interest in Asian politics when he was in Harvard. There were numerous students from India, Nepal, Pakistan and China whom he had been together in many of the classes. He could not help but wonder why many countries in Asia were still so far behind when lot of them were hardworking and smart. It was during his Senior year at harvard when his interest in Asian political scenario had taken a new turn when he had met his career counsellor who suggested many options one of them being an operative for the Department of Defense. Since then he had deligently kept up with the political manifestations in the Asian hemisphere. He knew that with the current socio political situation in the US, there were many countries vying to take the US position if anything was to happen. The most obvious candidate was China and India came second when it came to being a jealot of the arms race. India had been very illustrious in designing their own Agni missiles back in the late 80's and since then their defense technology has increased hundred folds and the US intelligence was aware of their latest acquisitions through different moles in the Indian government and other neighboring countries.

Dean had gone to Birgunj the next day and ran a full surveillance of the area with the help of few local assistants who were hired by the American Embassy in Kathmandu. He had realized that it was not going to be easy especially due to him standing out in crowd. Most Nepalis were short compared to his 6ft 3in height and well built body. He would stand out in any crowd so he needed to direct a group of trustworthy trained operatives in order to complete his mission. His mission was sanctioned by Langley and he did not have too much time. He needed local operatives to penetrate any locations in Birgunj.

After coming back to Kathmandu, he had udated Agent Wiggins and Agent Gates and instructed them to find few operatives who could be trusted to act as the liasons and operatives on this mission. The office of the Embassador to Nepal, Mr. Scott H. DeLisi provided necessary intelligence information from their database on possible matches for the supporting field operatives.

Meghna Samaya's name came as one of the matches. Meghna having been born in the US, carrying US citizenship, and having lived in Nepal for most of her life became a very promising candidate. Due to her US citizenship, the agency was keeping regular tabs on her through her online Facebook activities.

"Farewell party for Parikshya at Fire and Ice" read her facebook events page which she had accepted. Agent Tim chuckled at Agent Tina. "Gotto love Facebook. Makes life so much easier." They had gotten into the car and headed towards Thamel, the tourist attraction and the hotspot of most night action in Kathmandu.


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This is a work of fiction. No plans had/have been made on the plot.  No edits have been made. I write as I go along. Please pardon any errors.