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Possibly, the ISI's main disadvantage is its directing mostly by operational officers who were involved in intelligence or military missions. As a result, the ISI command prefer to influence Pakistan's strategic environment through intelligence operations (in Afghanistan and India) rather than concentrate on intelligence support to military operations.
The reorganisation of the ISI following the beginning of the Afghan War after 9/11 should have been answering this problem with the construction of the new section of counter-terrorism, known as DG (CT). However, the influence of special operation advocates in the ISI seems still to be overwhelming. Reassign civilians into the organisations will not make a different without strengthening the elements in ISI which are not part of the combative activity of the agency.
So now you want to demarcate 'Ops' and 'Int' vividly.
Strange.