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The '''Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence''' (also '''Inter-Services Intelligence''' or '''I.S.I.''') is the principal ] body of the nation of ] |
The '''Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence''' (also '''Inter-Services Intelligence''' or '''I.S.I.''') is the principal ] body of the nation of ]. The ISI provided most of the operational and organizational leadership during the ]-funded insurgency in ] against the ]. It was also critical in supporting the ] in Afghanistan. ] accuses the ISI of supporting rebels in the separatist ] region, but ] maintains that the ethnic instability in India is playing out in Kashmir by indigenous freedom fighters. | ||
== Also Read == | == Also Read == |
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The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (also Inter-Services Intelligence or I.S.I.) is the principal intelligence body of the nation of Pakistan. The ISI provided most of the operational and organizational leadership during the U.S.-funded insurgency in Afghanistan against the USSR. It was also critical in supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan. India accuses the ISI of supporting rebels in the separatist Kashmir region, but Pakistan maintains that the ethnic instability in India is playing out in Kashmir by indigenous freedom fighters.
Also Read
- General Akhtar Abdur Rahman
- General Mitha
References
- ISBN 0850528607 - By ISI brigadier Mohammad Yousaf; Afghanistan the Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower.
- ISBN 1594200076 - By Steve Coll; Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.
- ISBN 1574885502 - Brassey's International Intelligence Yearbook.
- ISBN 041530797X - By Jerrold E Schneider, P R Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Stephen Phillip Cohen; Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia: The Compound Crisis in 1990
- ISBN 0802141242 - By George Crile; Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History