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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 ISI provided most of the operational and organizational leadership during the ]-funded insurgency in ] against the ]. The ISI is accused of supporting rebels in the separatist ] region, but ] maintains that the ethnic instability in India is playing out in Kashmir by indigenous freedom fighters. 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 ]. The ISI is accused of supporting rebels in the separatist ] region, but ] maintains that the ethnic instability in India is playing out in Kashmir by indigenous freedom fighters.


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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. The ISI is accused 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.

ISI has been responsible for gathering information in and around Pakistan, mostly through agents infiltrating into India, illegally or legally. It was responsible for diffusing the Balochistan incident, where, backed my India Balochistan wanted to be divided into another country . It is also reponsible for anti-terrorist operations, mainly difffusing situations arising from Afghanistan and India.

Apart from gathering information, the ISI is also responsible for training spies, security of the Pakistan nuclear program and maintaining good relations with People's Republic of China and a good image of Pakistan throughout the world. The ISI is also responsible for the security of top Pakistan amry generals.

Also Read

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

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