Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence
| بین الخدماتی مخابرات | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1948 by General Robert Cawthome |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Pakistan |
| Headquarters | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Employees | 10,000 (est) |
| Agency executive | |
The Directorate General for Inter-Services Intelligence or Inter-Services Intelligence (abbreviated ISI, Urdu: بین الخدماتی مخابرات) is the premier intelligence service of Pakistan, operationally responsible for providing critical national security and intelligence assessment to the Government of Pakistan. The ISI is the largest of the five intelligence services of Pakistan, the others being the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Military Intelligence (MI), Naval Intelligence (NI) and Air Intelligence (AI). In the late 20th century, the ISI's work and activities in relation to Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War in then-communist Afghanistan became quite famous. During this war, ISI worked in close coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency; the latter providing strategic support and intelligence to the Afghan Taliban against the Northern Alliance in the civil war in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
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