The Pakistani Godfather : The Inter-Service Intelligence

Contents: Preface. 1. Pakistan’s inter-services intelligence (ISI). 2. Hamid Gul: father of terrorism. 3. ISI and Pakistani Government. 4. ISI-Afghanistan: the role of drug trafficking. 5. Perspectives Pakistan: inter services intelligence directorate. 6. De-classified operations of inter-services intelligence. 7. The Pakistani intelligence agency and terrorism. Bibliography. Index. 

The ISI role in Pakistani politics under the various leaders like Ayub Khan, Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto and Zia-ul Haq. Initially the ISI lacked an internal role which was the domain of the Intelligence Bureau. However as the first signs of secessionism surfaced in the erstwhile East Pakistan during the late 1950s the politico-bureaucratic leadership suspected the sympathies of Bengali IB officers and directed the ISI to operate there. Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul (Born 20 November 1936) HI (M), SBt, is a retired high-ranking general officer in the Pakistan Army, and a former spymaster famous for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, between 1987 and 1989 during the late stages of and post-stages of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. ISI charter incorporates gathering of external and internal intelligence,co-ordination of intelligence functions of the three services, surveillance over its cadre, foreigners, media men, politically conscious segments of Pak society, diplomats of other countries accredited to Pakistan and Pak diplomats serving outside the country…