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HAS PAKISTAN TAMED ITS SPIES?

Authors :
McGirk, Tim
Bloch, Hannah
Calabresi, Massimo
Source :
TIME Magazine; 5/6/2002, Vol. 159 Issue 18, p32, 4p, 8 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Map
Publication Year :
2002

Abstract

Focuses on the Pakistani spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which is led by General Mehmood Ahmed. How Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is trying to gain control over the group that has been referred to as a kingdom within a state; Role of the ISI in the U.S. war on terrorism in Afghanistan and in finding al-Qaeda and Taliban agents; Background on how the ISI helped create the danger from Islamic extremists with its policy in Kashmir.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0040781X
Volume :
159
Issue :
18
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
TIME Magazine
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
6565558