1st Edition

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate Covert Action and Internal Operations

By Owen L. Sirrs Copyright 2017
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

PART I: ISI’s Early Days

1. ISI’s origins

2. ISI and Anglo-American intelligence

3. Covert action in northeast India

4. Intelligence and the 1965 War

PART II: ISI at War

5. ISI’s domestic missions under Ayub

6. Intelligence failures in East Pakistan

7. Intelligence and the 1971 war

8. ISI under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Part III: Overreach

9. Zia ul-Haq, Afghanistan, and ISI

10. ISI’s Afghanistan war

Part IV: Adrift

11. Intelligence and democracy: 1988-1999

12. Insurgency in Kashmir and Punjab

13. Escalating tensions with India

14. Pakistan’s Afghan quagmire

15. ISI and Osama bin Laden

PART V: Confrontation

16. Intelligence and nuclear weapons in South Asia

17. ISI-CIA liaison after 9/11

18. Friction in ISI-CIA relations

19. ISI’s internal security missions

20. US operations in Pakistan

21. ISI and the demise of bin Laden

Conclusions

Biography

Owen L. Sirrs is Adjunct Professor at the University of Montana, USA, and the author of two previous books, including, most recently, The Egyptian Intelligence Service (Routledge 2011).

"The book has some interesting material... By pulling together the main features of the story, this book represents a useful resource for scholars"

Teresita C. Schaffer, Survival