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Subject(s)

• Military intelligence—Pakistan [Browse]
• Intelligence service—Pakistan [Browse]
• Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence [Browse]

Summary note

"This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extremist groups in Afghanistan, India, and Central Asia has focused international attention on Pakistan’s premier intelligence organization and covert action advocate, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate or ISI. While ISI is regarded as one of the most powerful government agencies in Pakistan today, surprisingly little has been written about it from an academic perspective. This book addresses critical gaps in our understanding of this agency, including its domestic security mission, covert backing of the Afghan Taliban, and its links to al-Qa’ida. Using primary source materials, including declassified intelligence and diplomatic reporting, press reports and memoirs, this book explores how ISI was transformed from a small, negligible counter intelligence outfit of the late-1940s into the national security behemoth of today with extensive responsibilities in domestic security, political interference and covert action. This study concludes that reforming or even eliminating ISI will be fundamental if Pakistan is to successfully transition from an army-run, national security state to a stable, democratic society that enjoys peaceful relations with its neighbours."--from Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I: ISI's Early Days. ISI's origins ; ISI and Anglo-American Intelligence ; Covert Action in Northeast India ; Intelligence and the 1965 War
• Part II: ISI at War. ISI's Domestic Missions under Ayub ; Intelligence Failures in East Pakistan ; Intelligence and the 1971 War ; ISI under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Part III: Overreach. Zia ul-Haq, Afghanistan and ISI ; ISI's Afghanistan War
• Part IV: Adrift. Intelligence and Democracy: 1988-1999 ; Insurgency in Kahmir and Punjab ; Escalating Tensions with India ; Pakistan's Afghan Quagmire ; ISI and Osama Bin Laden
• Part V: confrontation. Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons in South Asia ; ISI-CIA Liaison after 9/11 ; Friction in ISI-CIA Relations ; ISI's Internal Security Missions ; US Operations in Pakistan ; ISI and the Demise of Bin Laden
• Conclusions.

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ISBN

• 9781138677166 ((hardback))
• 1138677167 ((hardback))
• 9781138495258 ((pbk))
• 1138495255 ((pbk))

LCCN

2016004564

OCLC

938993689

Other standard number

• 12842118

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