Pakistan’s strategy of jihad is, by now, well understood by many scholars and analysts to be an indispensable part of the country’s statecraft. The most pronounced example of this strategy in action is Jammu and Kashmir, where Pakistan has long sought to mould a festering insurgency, and political separatism among a section of population, through the use of proxies. The Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence is central to Pakistan’s deployment and management of these proxies, some of which have carried out or plotted spectacular acts of international terrorism far from Kashmir. But the genesis of the ISI is a strange story of its own, intimately related to the conjoined triplet of empire, insurgency, and intrigue.
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