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DIRECTORATE FOR INTER-SERVICES INTELLIGENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence mean?
• DIRECTORATE FOR INTER-SERVICES INTELLIGENCE (noun)
The noun DIRECTORATE FOR INTER-SERVICES INTELLIGENCE has 1 sense:
1. the Pakistan intelligence agency; a powerful and almost autonomous political and military force; has procured nuclear technology and delivery capabilities; has had strong ties with the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups
Familiarity information: DIRECTORATE FOR INTER-SERVICES INTELLIGENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DIRECTORATE FOR INTER-SERVICES INTELLIGENCE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Pakistan intelligence agency; a powerful and almost autonomous political and military force; has procured nuclear technology and delivery capabilities; has had strong ties with the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence; Inter-Services Intelligence; ISI
Hypernyms ("Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence" is a kind of...):
international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)
Domain region:
Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
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