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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).
Established in 1948 by Major-General Walter Cawthorn, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (more commonly known as Inter-Services Intelligence or simply by its initials ISI) is the most premier and largest intelligence service. [6] Primary roles are to consolidate and assess intelligence to senior government and military officials.
The Director-General (DG) is head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence service, operationally responsible for providing critical national security and intelligence assessment to the government of Pakistan. Walter Cawthorn had conceived the idea of ISI.
The Pakistani military largely retained British military traditions and doctrine until 1956, when the United States dispatched a specialized Military Assistance Advisory Group to Pakistan to build its military; from this point onward, American military tradition and doctrine became more dominant within Pakistan's armed forces. [25]
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 ...
Operation Tupac is the codename of a military-intelligence contingency program that was run in the 1980s by Pakistan's main intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). It has a three-part action plan to provide covert support to anti-India separatists and militants in the insurgency in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
The Intelligence Bureau (Urdu: سررشتہِ سراغرسانی ; IB) is an intelligence and security agency in Pakistan, focused primarily on non-military intelligence. Established in 1947, the IB is Pakistan's oldest intelligence agency. It is led by the Director General (DG IB), who is usually an officer from the Police Service of Pakistan.
US officials and Pakistani journalists and scholars say the ISI has a systematic campaign to threaten those who speak critically of the Pakistan military. [10] Pakistani political academic Ayesha Siddiqa has controversially claimed that the ISI has infiltrated US think tanks. According to Siddiqa, a Pakistani diplomat had confided that the ISI ...