State Organ
The Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI is Pakistan’s intelligence agency. It is the largest of the three intelligence agencies of Pakistan; the other two are Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI).
Overview: The Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI is Pakistan’s intelligence agency. It is the largest of the three intelligence agencies of Pakistan; the other two being Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI). ISI is quite a well organized intelligence agency; it’s at par with any other intelligence agency of the world.
Role of the ISI: It was founded in 1948, in order to safe guard Pakistani interests and national security inside and outside the country.
The ISI collects foreign and domestic intelligence, it co-ordinates intelligence functions of the three military services; being the Pakistan Army, Air Force and Navy. It carries out surveillance of foreigners, media, politicians, diplomats of other countries assigned to Pakistan and Pakistani diplomats serving abroad. It also monitors communications.
Strength of the ISI: The ISI is staffed mainly by personnel either from the police, or from one of the military forces. There are approximately 25000 men making up its workforce, this figure does not include informants and assets.
Notable contributions by the ISI:
Headquarters: Islamabad
Agency Executive: Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha
Role of the ISI: It was founded in 1948, in order to safe guard Pakistani interests and national security inside and outside the country.
The ISI collects foreign and domestic intelligence, it co-ordinates intelligence functions of the three military services; being the Pakistan Army, Air Force and Navy. It carries out surveillance of foreigners, media, politicians, diplomats of other countries assigned to Pakistan and Pakistani diplomats serving abroad. It also monitors communications.
Strength of the ISI: The ISI is staffed mainly by personnel either from the police, or from one of the military forces. There are approximately 25000 men making up its workforce, this figure does not include informants and assets.
Notable contributions by the ISI:
- 1980s; when Israel had plans to destroy the Pakistani nuclear facilities in Kahuta with India’s assistance, due to the ISI, Pakistan was made aware of the possibility of an air attack. Hence India was warned of retaliatory attack on its Trombay facilities for aiding Israel, and when the Israeli aircraft flew close to the Pakistani border, they found Pakistani fighter jets alert and ready to attack back in defense and this made Israeli jets pull back from the attack.
- 1979; ISI discovered a surveillance mission which was spying on Pakistan’s nuclear facilities at Kahuta Research Laboratories. The spying was conducted by the French Ambassador to Pakistan, Le Gourrierce and his First Secretary, Jean Forlot. Both were arrested, by the ISI and their cameras and other sensitive equipment were confiscated, intercepted documents later on showed that the two were recruited by the CIA.
- 1995; Ramzi Yousef, one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was captured in Islamabad by the Pakistani intelligence, and the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).
- 2003; ISI along with CIA captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks as well as other significant terrorist plots over the last twenty years, including the World Trade Center 1993 bombings, and the murder of Daniel Pearl.
- 2005; ISI and security forces arrested Abu Faraj Farj al-Liby, mastermind of two failed attempts on President Pervez Musharraf’s life.
- 2009; Maulvi Omer, senior aid to Baitullah Mehsud was captured by ISI.
- 2010; Taliban’s deputy commander, Abdul Ghani Baradar was captured by the ISI and U.S. forces.
Headquarters: Islamabad
Agency Executive: Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha
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