General Munir is the most senior general in the country’s army, and formerly served as the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the intelligence wing known as the I.S.I., and the Directorate-General for Military Intelligence. His tenure at the I.S.I. was cut short in 2019 after he clashed with then Prime Minister Imran Khan....
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Tag: ISI
Data Leak Exposes How a Swiss Bank Served Strongmen and Spies
As the head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan helped funnel billions of dollars in cash and other aid from the United States and other countries to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to support their fight against the Soviet Union. In 1985, the same year President Ronald Reagan called for more oversight...
Pakistan Powerful Spy Service Gets a New Chief–And a Crisis
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (IS) is a kind of shadow government over the country’s democracy, setting policy in Afghanistan and establishing red lines beyond which elected officials cannot cross. So when Prime Ministers Imran Khan altered the procedure for selecting a successor to ISI chief Faiz Hameed, last month, he set off a political crisis in...
Pakistan’s ISI Has a Message for the Taliban: You Owe Us
From Jonathan Broder at the reliable SpyTalk. You can’t understand Afghanistan without understanding the role of the Pakistani spy agency known as Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI. Islamabad publicly distanced itself from the Taliban, proclaiming Pakistan a loyal ally in the U.S. war on terror. But the ISI covertly continued its support for the group, giving...
Pakistani Intelligence Chief Visits Taliban
First CIA director WIlliam Burns met with the Taliban. Now, Faiz Hamid, the chief of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence is visiting Kabul. Intelligence chiefs now do the job that foreign ministers used to do.
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