What Is Pakistans ISI or Inter-Services Intelligence?
What Is Pakistan’s ISI or Inter-Services Intelligence?Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, known as the ISI (or the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence) is the country’s largest intelligence service. It is a controversial, sometimes rogue organization that Benazir Bhutto, the late Pakistani prime minister, once termed a “state within a state” for its tendency to operate outside of the Pakistani government’s control and at cross-purposes with American anti-terror policy in South Asia. How did the ISI become so powerful?Answer: The ISI became that “state within a state” only after 1979, largely thanks to billions of dollars in American and Saudi aid and a
