Inter-Services Intelligence Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (also Inter-Services Intelligence or I.S.I.) is the principal intelligence body of the nation of Pakistan. The ISI provided most of the operational and organizational leadership during the U.S-funded insurgency in Afghanistan against the USSR. It is widely believed that they are playing a similar role in the Kashmir region.ISI is headed by a lieutenant-general or a three-star general of the Pakistan Army.
Roots
The roots of the ISI go back to the U.S.-backed guerrilla war to oust the Soviet Army from Afghanistan in the 1980s. That Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed effort flooded Pakistan with weapons and with Afghan, Pakistani and Arab "mujahideen", who fought under the name of Islam. In order to train fighters, distribute arms, channel money, the CIA relied on the ISI.
During the Soviet invasion from 1979–1989, the ISI monitored the activities of and provided advice and support to the mujahideen, and commandos from the Army's Special Services Group helped guide the operations inside Afghanistan. The ISI trained about 83,000 Afghan mujahideen between 1983 and 1997, and dispatched them to Afghanistan.
Since its inception, one of the goals of the ISI has been to gather intelligence in India. ISI has allegedly actively supported various insurgent groups throughout India, in locations such as the Punjab, Kashmir, Assam, Northeastern India, etc., complementing the moral (diplomatic) support offered by the Pakistani government to these groups. India regularly accuses the ISI of complicity in various terrorist attacks all over the country (including some in Bombay and the Parliament House) in addition to the insurgence-prone areas.
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