The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the largest and most well-known component of the Pakistani intelligence community. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant to Pakistans national security. The ISI reports to its director-general and is primarily focused on providing intelligence to the Pakistani government. The ISI is believed to employ tens of thousands of agents, with informers in many spheres of public life. The ISI is seen as the Pakistani equivalent of the U.S. Central Agency (CIA) and Israel’s Mossad. The ISI has been accused of supporting the insurgency in Kashmir by arming separatist militant groups. The agency specializes in utilizing terrorist organizations as proxies for Pakistani foreign policy, covert action abroad, and controlling domestic politics. There have been increasing proofs from counter-terrorism organizations that militants and the Taliban continue to receive assistance from the ISI, as well as the establishment of camps to train terrorists on Pakistani territory. The ISI has been alleged or previously documented by various authors of running an active military intelligence program in the United States, as well as operational activities related to America outside the country. The ISI is widely feared by Pakistanis, and it is believed to have a hidden role in many of the nuclear-armed nation’s policies, including in Afghanistan.