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Inter-Services Intelligence
The
Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence
(more commonly known as just the
Inter-Services Intelligence
or simply by its initials
ISI
) is the premier military-operated
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 three
intelligence services
of Pakistan, the others being the
Intelligence Bureau
(IB) and
Military Intelligence
(MI). Previously in the 20th century, the ISI's work and activities have included the support of the
Afghan
mujahideen
in then-
communist Afghanistan
against the
Soviet Union
in
their war
against the mujahideen (in conjunction with the
Central Intelligence Agency
) and later provided strategic and intelligence support to the Afghan Taliban against the
Northern Alliance
in the
civil war
in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
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