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ISI is headed by a lieutenant-general or a three-star general of the Pakistan Army.

Roots

The roots of the ISI go back to the U.S.-backed guerrilla war to oust the Soviet Army from Afghanistan in the 1980s. That Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed effort flooded Pakistan with weapons and with Afghan, Pakistani and Arab " mujahideen", who fought under the name of Islam. In order to train fighters, distribute arms, channel money, the CIA relied on the ISI.

During the Soviet invasion from 1979– 1989, the ISI monitored the activities of and provided advice and support to the mujahideen, and commandos from the Army's Special Services Group helped guide the operations inside Afghanistan. The ISI trained about 83,000 Afghan mujahideen between 1983 and 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t, and dispatched them to Afghanistan.

Since its inception, one of the goals of the ISI has been to gather intelligence in IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy.. ISI has allegedly actively supported various insurgent groups throughout India, in locations such as the PunjabThe Punjab (sometimes spelt Panjab is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. Once a single entity, it is now split between two nations: see Punjab, India and Punjab, Pakistan. Punjab, India covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres (1, Kashmir, AssamAssam Motto Land of the Red River and Blue Hills Freedom from British Rule August 15, 1947 Language Assamese Bodo Karbi Capital Dispur Governor Ajai Singh Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Area 78,438 km² Population Total (2001) Density 26,414,322 286/km² Curren, Northeastern India, etc., complementing the moral ( diplomaticThis page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). United Nations, with its headquarters in New York City, is the largest international diplomatic organization. Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between a) support offered by the Pakistani government to these groups. India regularly accuses the ISI of complicity in various terrorist attacks all over the country (including some in BombayThe 1993 Mumbai bombings were a series of bomb explosions that took place in Mumbai (Bombay), India on March 12, 1993. The attacks were the worst wave of criminal violence in that country's history. At 1:30 PM a powerful car bomb exploded in the basement and the ParliamentThe Parliament of India is bicameral. The lower house is the Lok Sabha (House of the People). Its 552 members are nearly all directly elected. The upper house is the Rajya Sabha (Council of the States). It has 250 members, most of whom are elected by the House) in addition to the insurgence-prone areas.