TY - BOOK AU - Nil AU - Sunjoy K Singh (ed.) TI - PAKISTAN'S ISI : ANALYTICAL VERDICT SN - 9789387226050 U1 - 327.125491 PY - 2017/// CY - New Delhi PB - Ishwari Publishers KW - Social sciences KW - Political Science International Relations KW - Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations KW - Espionage and subversion KW - Asia KW - Inter Servises Intelligence (ISI) - Pakistan KW - Military intelligence -- Politics and government -- Pakistan N1 - The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate has over five decades of nationhood emerged into a powerful institution in Pakistan. It has been active as an organisation both under military rule and civilian regimes. The ISI gains importance from the fact that the political and military leaderships have always perceived threats to their national security since independence. The role of an intelligence agency is to serve as the first line of defence by providing the government with advance information about threats to national security ER -