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Julian Richards | Georgetown University Press | 2 September 2024
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Julian Richards examines the history of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate by looking at the service’s involvement in the country’s political transformations. The introduction explains the book traces “the development of the ISI from the birth of Pakistan in August 1947 to the reinstatement of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2021” (p. 2). Richards analyzes how ISI has played…
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