 Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Hameed Gul on Friday called the agency as the most disciplined intelligence organisation in the world. In an interview with the Voice of America (VOA), he said that ISI was not involved in any policy against the state, adding that it was all propaganda against the institution.
| That's my opinion, too. ISI does what it's told to do by the oligarchy. That doesn't mean it's not supporting and training the Taliban. Quite the opposite, in fact. |
The responsibility of internal political intelligence was assigned to the ISI during Zulfikar Bhutto's regime, and was part of the agency's charter, he added. Gul said Pakistani intelligence was helping US agencies and as a result more than 750 militants had been arrested and several others killed.
| That's 107 hard boyz a year for the past seven years, or about nine a month from all organizational levels -- something like two a week. Given the target-rich environment in a country where you can't chuck a rock without it bouncing off a turban, it's a pretty piss poor record when you think about it. |
The US, he said, was expecting the same role from ISI that it played during the Afghan-Russia war but the Afghan are against the US now. |