Format:
1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
ISBN:
9781849048620
Content:
Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by British officer Major General Robert Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure agency. In 1979, the organisation's growing importance was felt during the Soviet war in Afghanistan , as it worked hand in glove with the CIA to support the mujahideen resistance, but its activities received little coverage in news media. Since that time, the ISI has projected its influence across the region in 1988 its involvement in Indian Kashmir came under increasing scrutiny, and by 1995 its mentoring of what became the Afghan Taliban was well attested. But it was the organisation's alleged links with Al Qaeda and the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, at the heart of Pakistan's military zone, that really threw it under the spotlight. These controversies and many more have dogged the ISI, including its role in Pakistan's testing of a nuclear weapon in 1998 and its links with A.Q. Khan. Offering fresh insights into the ISI as a domestic and international actor based on intimate knowledge of its inner workings and key individuals, this startlingly original book uncovers the hitherto shady world of Pakistan's secret service
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author's Note on Sources -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The First Decade -- 2. The Era of the First Generals, 1958-1971 -- 3. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 1971-1977 -- 4. An Interim Balance Sheet of Thirty Years, 1948-1977 -- 5. The ISI Under Zia-ul-Haq, 1977-1988 -- 6. Turbulence at the End of the 1980s -- 7. Domestic Politics, 1988-1991 -- 8. The ISI and Nawaz Sharif, 1990-1993 -- 9. History Repeats Itself -- 10. Foreign Policy and the ISI -- 11. Nawaz Sharif, Second Time Around, 1997-1999 -- 12. Afghanistan in the 1990s -- 13. Insurgency in Punjab -- 14. The ISI in North-East India -- 15. Structure-Personnel-Budget -- 16. The ISI Under Pervez Musharraf -- 17. The Troubled Valley: Kashmir -- 18. Turbulent Times, 2007-2010 -- 19. Reform Attempts -- 20. Clouds on the Horizon -- 21. Quo Vadis, ISI? -- Postscript -- Appendix 1: Realities vs Misperceptions-Balochistan -- Appendix 2: Indian/RAW's Involvement in Pakistan -- Appendix 3: Organisational Structure of the ISI -- Appendix 4: Chart of the ISI Directorate -- Appendix 5: Director Generals ISI -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- Illustrations
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781849045179
Additional Edition:
Print version Kiessling, Hein Faith, Unity, Discipline : The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan Oxford : Hurst,c2016
Language:
English
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