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Why so?
1. Because ISI itself wants to be in the news. No other intelligence agency in the world is as media savvy as is the ISI.
Hardly so. Explain how? Fun fact: about a year or so ago General Shuja Pasha was listed in the Forbes 100 most powerful men in the world. The Pakistani media decided to run stories on it. They sifted through everything they had and all they could find on Gen. Pasha was a 6 year old five second video clip of him standing besides Gen. Musharraf and that too when he was not in the ISI.
2. The ISI has, over time, transformed into a tool of the Generals to control the internal politics of Pakistan. From the case of Saleem Shahzad to its involvement in the everyday politics, it's all too evident.
The ISI has many branches (as do all the other respectable Intel agencies) which are tasked with different duties. One of those branches is tasked with keeping an eye on the internal politics. There are other branches tasked with other duties. Remember the eight out of the ten most wanted people for the US handed over to them by the ISI? That too is all too evident if only one chooses to look.
3. The ISI is a direct tool of the Pakistan Army which is obviously the single most powerful organisation in Pakistan. Few other Armies or intelligence agencies in the world enjoy such a powerful status inside their own countries.
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I think may be bcoz of the Osama incident ISI is discussed more in the media
Yes that is or could be one of the contributing factors but one has to realize that the recent discussions on the ISI have gone far beyond the Osama incident. I mean even the Americans have forgotten about Osama, well at least the ones who knew who he was
No foreign press mentions it as often as Indians and Pakistanis. Russians will not give a damn about ISI when they discuss their secret services nor will Americans and Britishers, it is just related to us (south asians). And as this is a Pakistani forum and Pakistanis know ISI more than foreigners so it is normal that it is discussed more than other secret services.
For example if you go to a US defense related forum they will be discussing CIA more naturally as they know it more than other agencies.
Just like the other day a person said why there are so many wikileaks about Pakistan unlike other countries and in fact some countries are having more leaks than Pakistan. It is just that we are following only about Pakistan so we see that wikileaks is only about Pakistan generally.
Its not just that. The progressive increase in the stories pertaining to denouncing the ISI in the worldwide media does make one wonder why. And yes the ISI is regularly discussed in the western media these days.