The Deep Dive with Andre

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)


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The provided source offers a comprehensive historical overview of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), tracing its evolution from a post-Partition necessity in 1948 to a powerful, autonomous institution by 2025. It details how the ISI's initial focus on external threats, particularly from India, shifted dramatically with military coups, transforming it into a key player in domestic politics and regime preservation. The text highlights the Soviet-Afghan War as a pivotal period, propelling the ISI onto the global stage through its alliance with the CIA and its cultivation of jihadist groups, which later led to significant "blowback." Finally, it examines the ISI's complex "double game" in the War on Terror, its role as the core of Pakistan's "deep state" through political interference and human rights abuses, and its current strategic reorientation towards China in a post-U.S. Afghanistan.

Research done with the help of artificial intelligence, and presented by two AI-generated hosts.

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