ISI: Intelligence Agency of Pakistan

The Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) is the major intelligence agency in Pakistan. The Indo-Pak War of 1947 directed to the institutionalization of ISI in 1948 with the purpose to collect both internal and external intelligence information. The Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s permitted the ISI to enlarge its supremacy and supervise all rudiments of the war. At that moment, the Covert Action Division of ISI was trained and by the CIA specialists from USA. Since that time, they are more familiar and more efficient in acquiring intelligence reports, analyzing critical data regarding matters of national security and share the assessment with the national government for taking relative actions.

Usually, the head of ISI comes from the Pak Army. The agency director must be currently serving as a Lieutenant General in the Army. It is believed that the ISI is the largest intelligence agency in the world, with 10,000 people working for it but Pakistan has never made these statistics accessible to the public; hence, the conjectures persist. ISI is working with its eight primary divisions, which all play different roles in collecting vital information from various sources and compiles them for concrete conclusions. Not only in warfare, ISI works round the clock to ensure no overt or covert plan is hatched which could violate the national sovereignty if its country or its organization.