In choosing to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy, the government of Pakistan, and most especially the Pakistani Army and ISI, jeopardizes not only the prospect of our strategic partnership but Pakistan’s opportunity to be a respected nation with legitimate regional interest.
I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
The United States has essentially outsourced its strategy to Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), funneling billions of dollars and military equipment to rabidly anti-American military officers and their jihadist proxies. The result … is that the United States has been continuously hoodwinked as Pakistan has taken the money for nothing in return.
Inter Services Intelligence-aided sleeper modules within the country are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.
Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'
It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi.
The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
India should demand an international watch on ISI.
If Pakistan and ISI stop supporting terrorist groups, security situation in South Asia would improve significantly.
