Pakistans Spy Agencies

Challenges of Civilian Control over Intelligence Agencies Bureaucratic and Military Stakeholderism, Dematerialization of Civilian Intelligence, and War of Strength

Musa Khan Jalalzai

• Éditeur: VIJ Books (India) Pty Ltd
• Année: 2020
• ISBN:
  9789389620498
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Politics & International Relations
• Sous-sujet: Intelligence & Espionage

The imbalance of Pakistan's civil-military relations has caused misperceptions about the changing role of intelligence in politics. The country maintains 32 secret agencies working under different democratic, political and military stakeholders who use them for their own interests. Established in 1948, The ISI was tasked with acquiring intelligence of strategic interests and assessing the intensity of foreign threats, but political and military stakeholders used the agency adversely and painted a consternating picture of its working environment. The civilian intelligence agency-Intelligence Bureau (IB) has been gradually neglected due to the consecutive military rule and weak democratic governments. The ISI today seems the most powerful agency and controls the policy decisions.The working of various intelligence agencies, militarisation of intelligence and ineffectiveness of the civilian intelligence are some of the issues discussed in the book.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies: Stakeholders, Crisis of Confidence and lack of Modern Intelligence Mechanism
• Chapter 2 Militarisation of Intelligence, Dematerialization of Civilian Intelligence and a War of Strength between the Military and Civilian Spy Agencies
• Chapter 3 The Challenges of Civilian Control over Intelligence Agencies, Democratic Governments, Military Establishment and a War of Strength
• Chapter 4 Military Courts, Fair Trials Violations, Confessions without Adequate Safeguards against Torture, Rough-Handling of Prisoners, and Denial of Public Hearing
• Chapter 5 The Pakistani Godfather: The Inter-Services Intelligence and the Afghan Taliban 1994-2010
• Chapter 6 The US’s Greatest Strategic Failure: Steve Coll on the CIA and the ISI
• Chapter 7 Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Chapter 8 The Political and Military Involvement of Inter Services Intelligence in Afghanistan
• Chapter 9 Pakistan Army and the Pashtun Tahafooz Movement
• Chapter 10 Double Game: Why Pakistan Supports Militants and Resists U.S. Pressure to Stop
• Notes to Chapters
• Bibliography
• Index