First CIA director WIlliam Burns met with the Taliban. Now, Faiz Hamid, the chief of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence is visiting Kabul. Intelligence chiefs now do the job that foreign ministers used to do.
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The Afghan Intelligence Agency Was Raided: Who Got the Files?
The people who seized the files at the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Communications may not have even been Taliban: The men did not speak Afghan languages, the officials said, and may have been agents of Pakistan’s military intelligence agency working in tandem with Taliban forces. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has long supported...
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Pakistan’s ‘Deep State’: پاکستان: انٹر- سروسز انٹلی جینس (آئی ایس آئی)
From Top World Intelligence Agencies In English: پاکستان: انٹر- سروسز انٹلی جینس (آئی ایس آئی) جائزہ آئی ایس آئی کو عمومی سطح پر ریاست پاکستان کے ریڑھ کی ہڈی تصور کیا جاتا ہے۔ یہ ایک طاقتور لیکن خفیہ انٹلی جینس سروس ہے جو پاکستان کی منتخب حکومت کو سنبھالتی ہے اور ملک کے جوہری ہتھیار کو...
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Pakistan’s ‘Deep State’ and the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
In a ten-part 2018 podcast, the BBC World Service investigated the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of a former prime minister who was seeking to become Pakistan’s first female leader. Instead a suicide bomber ended her life. A friend called it to my attention (HT/Jeffrey) and it is a compelling look at the possible...
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ISI: Pakistan’s Powerful Intelligence Service
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) ISI in the news: India: Pakistan’s spy agency involved in Kashmir bombingI (Feb. 19, 2019) ISI is widely regarded as the “deep state” of Pakistan. It is a powerful but opaque intelligence service that manages Pakistan’s elected government and controls and the nation’s substantial nuclear arsenal. ISI sponsors Islamist insurgencies in...
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