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Deep Dive | Pakistan
Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence, answerable only to Asim Munir

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Part 3
Anything goes between spies in Islamabad (3/4).
Anything goes between spies in Islamabad (3/4). © Stéphane Oiry

Formidable to foreign intelligence services and their spies stationed in Pakistan, the ISI is also feared within the country's own intelligence apparatus. As all-powerful military chief Asim Munir's enforcement arm, the agency has asserted itself as the only one able to safeguard national security.

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