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The method in madness


The method in madness
Ameera Javeria
The geostrategic significance of both India and Pakistan, the shared past and a bloody partition makes them bitter rivals. Almost as early as independence, both countries maneuvered and fed into the engines of war-their militaries and intelligence organisations. Today, these competing neighbours have amassed one of the largest and sophisticated war machines to counter impending threats by the other, promising large-scale annihilation of life in the region.
Intelligence organisations not only aid in periods of war and peace by providing information which is used to counter the enemy. India and Pakistan considerably invested in their intelligence units, which mushroomed into a deft network, operating at home and abroad. Today, the world sees ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) and its 20-year younger counterpart RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), as one the most advanced agencies with ISI as a trailblazer. ....

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The method in madness - Daily Times


Daily Times
HarperCollins, 2018
May 8, 2021
The geostrategic significance of both India and Pakistan, the shared past and a bloody partition makes them bitter rivals. Almost as early as the independence, both countries maneuvered and fed into the engines of war their militaries and intelligence organisations. Today, these competing neighbours have amassed one of the largest and sophisticated war machines to counter impending threats by the other, promising large-scale annihilation of life in the region.
Intelligence organisations not only aid in periods of war and peace by providing information which is used to counter the enemy. India and Pakistan considerably invested in their intelligence units, which mushroomed into a deft network, operating at home and abroad. Today, the world sees ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) and its 20-year younger counterpart RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), as one the most advanced agencies with ISI as a trailblazer.  ....

Krung Thep Mahanakhon , Peter Jones , Hamid Ansari , Amirjit Singh Daulat , Kulbhushan Yadav , Asad Durrani , University Of Ottawa Centre For International Policy , Services Intelligence , University Of Ottawa , Inter Services Intelligence , Analysis Wing , International Policy Studies , General Durrani , General Asad Durrani , Hafiz Saeed , Exit Control List , Pakistan Adrift , Navigating Troubled Waters , Honour Among Spies , பீட்டர் ஜோன்ஸ் , ஹமிட் அன்சாரி , குல்பூஷன் யாதவ் , அசாத் துரிரனி , பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் ஆடவா மையம் க்கு சர்வதேச பாலிஸீ , சேவைகள் உளவுத்துறை , பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் ஆடவா ,

The contrarian view


A retired Pakistani general and one-time director-general of its Inter-Services Intelligence has recently written a novel,
 Honour Among Spies, a thinly-veiled depiction of contemporary Pakistan politics, civil-military tensions, India-Pakistan relations, the war on terror and so on. The author, Asad Durrani, had acquired some notoriety in Pakistan when he co-authored 
The Spy Chronicles with A.S. Dulat, the former head of India’s external intelligence. This book was a series of conversations between the two on India-Pakistan conflicts and on Kashmir. This public act of intellectual cooperation of a Pakistani general with an Indian spymaster was unusual, as was a frank discussion on Kashmir with an Indian. The fact that the book was published in India muddied waters further in Pakistan and in the resulting dust-up General Asad Durrani was investigated and his pension temporarily stopped (he had retired in the mid-1990s). General Durrani followed up with a second book, ....

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