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The Inter-Services Intelligence was established in 1948. It was the brainchild of Major General Walter Cawthorn, then Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army, following the First Kashmir War which had exposed weaknesses in intelligence gathering, sharing, and coordination between the army, air force, navy, Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI).
Walter Cawthorn had conceived the idea of ISI. Afterwards, Brigadier Syed Shahid Hamid took over and was later promoted to a two-star rank of a major general and became the second director-general of the ISI. [1] [2] The current DG of ISI is Lt. General Asim Malik since 30 September 2024. [3]
The ISI has reportedly been suspicious about CIA's attempted penetration of Pakistani nuclear assets, and CIA's alleged intelligence gathering in the Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border. Based on these suspicions, it was speculated that the ISI was pursuing counter-intelligence against CIA operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [2]
By July 7,000 US troops and 2,500 Iraqi troops were fighting ISI in that battle, the US army claimed that 80 percent of ISI leaders had fled the area. [84] The US troop surge went into full effect in June 2007, and supplied the military with more manpower for operations targeting Islamic State of Iraq.
Creation of six militant groups in Kashmir, which included Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was aided by the ISI. [11] [12] According to American Intelligence officials, ISI is still providing protection and help to LeT. [12] The Pakistan Army and ISI also LeT volunteers surreptitiously penetrate from Pakistan Administrated Kashmir to Jammu and Kashmir. [13]
Director General, Inter-Services Intelligence, (DG ISI), at ISI Headquarters, Islamabad. 12 Baloch - 80 PMA LC. Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sword of Honour: 03: Inam Haider Malik [3] Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority , Islamabad: 1 Engineer Battalion - 80 PMA LC: Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) 04 Fayyaz Hussain Shah Commander, IV Corps ...
As Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), sent him back home to establish the Al-Nusra Front, a branch of Al Qaeda.
The Pakistani army through ISI have been accused of recruiting fighters and suicide bombers for the Afghan Taliban among the 1.7 million registered and 1-2 million unregistered Pashtun Afghan refugees living in refugee camps and settlements along the Afghan-Pakistan border in Pakistan many of whom have lived there since the Soviet–Afghan War.