Inter-Services Intelligence
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Book Review: Pakistan Adrift by Asad Durrani
Hamid Hussain reviews Asad Durrani’s memoir Pakistan Adrift, finding the former ISI chief candid about his own mistakes, including distributing money to politicians, and a revealing guide to power at…
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Review: Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hamid Hussain reviews Steve Coll’s Directorate S as an excellent, mainly American-sourced account of the Af-Pak region, stressing that CIA-ISI relations were not black and white, that ISI is not…
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Judicial Jitters in Pakistan. A look back..
Omar Ali reposts Hamid Hussain’s 2007 essay for context on Pakistan’s judicial controversies. Hussain argues that when politics is militarised and the judiciary and army brass politicised, the system stays…
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Political Engineering in Pakistan Part II
Omar Ali posts Hamid Hussain’s explainer on political engineering in Pakistan before the 25 July 2018 election, written for non-Pakistanis, which opens with quotations on the failings of political leaders,…
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Review: The Spy Chronicles
Omar Ali posts Hamid Hussain’s review of The Spy Chronicles, a transcript of conversations between a former ISI chief and a former RAW chief, a book neither memoir nor theory,…
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Political Engineering in Pakistan. The Military View
Omar Ali posts the first part of Hamid Hussain’s essay on political engineering in Pakistan, which sets out the army’s view after Nawaz Sharif’s July 2017 disqualification, alleging military hands…
