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200 years of Covert Warfare | Directorate of Covert Operations | Inter Services Intelligence

Inter Services Intelligence has edge on every intelligence because they were always busy in something every time, they have much more experienced then CIA, MI6 or Mossad. For reaching the the level of ISI other intelligence agencies need too much experience,
 
  • Directorate of Covert Operations (Unofficial Name)
DAC is generally considered to be one of the most secretive Special Operations Force of Pakistan's security apparatus. DAC is responsible for paramilitary and covert operations as well as special activities. They are also tasked to collect INTEL in extremely hostile environment, battlefields and act as a special warfare unit of the ISI.
  • Mission
These operatives often operate in remote locations behind enemy lines to carry out Deep Penetration, Covert Direct Action (including raids and sabotage), Counter-Intelligence, Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare, Counter-Terrorism, and Hostage Rescue missions, in addition to being able to conduct espionage via HUMINT assets.

  • Engagements
  • 1800–1837 (Afghan-Sikh Wars)
  • 1838–48 (First Afghan War to Second Sikh War)
  • 1849–58 (Second Sikh War to Sepoy Revolt)
  • 1859–1878 (Sepoy Revolt to Second Afghan War)
  • 1878–1898 (Second Afghan War to Frontier Rebellion)
  • 1898–1914 (Frontier Revolt to Great War)
  • 1914–1918 (First World War)
  • 1919–39 (between the wars)
  • 1940–1947 (Second World War to independence)
  • 1947-1948(War is Kashmir)
  • 1964-1965(Indo Pak War)
  • 1971(Indo Pak War)
  • 1980-1987(Soviet War In Afghanistan, Siachen conflict)
  • 1998-1999(Kargil War)
  • 2000-2015(Indo Pak Border Skirmishes and War on terror)
  • 1948-2015(LOC border skirmishes)
  • Several undisclosed Operation’s.
  • History and Formation
Originally a Pashtun militia, fought several battles in last 215 years starting from Sikhs then British and finally was merged in OCT 1947 with PA, were tasked to liberate Kashmir and in spite of no area knowledge and no good weaponry succeeded in liberating huge part of Kashmir. After formation of ISI in 1948 and problems caused by FIQAR of IPI, a group of die hard operatives from militia and Gilgit scouts were taken and trained, they later formed a new directorate of the ISI, their main task was to counter influence of FIQAR of IPI and if he starts an insurgency with the help of Afghans, they were to cause a denial of battlefield dominance until the main force of Pakistan Army arrived. In the start they were mostly formed out of Pashtun Guerilla fighters who fought the Sikhs and the British from father to son that’s why the Covert Action Division traces its history back to 1800 as well as retains covert war-fighting knowledge going back by more than 200 years. Until the formation of the SS Group, it was a dedicated Special Operations unit, in the 1960 they were known to the West only in name but the situation changed in 1980 when DAC received training from the CIA, later assisted the Afghan Mujahideen in many battles against the Soviet Army. Until November 1954 the unit was mostly aimed to counter insurgency in Waziristan but after that its role was slowly expanded as a new unit was raised in East Pakistan. The working mechanism of the DAC remains classified as they belong to a creed of operatives which operate totally under a thick and dark blanket of secrecy and too little of their work is ever made public.

  • Training
CAD operatives are trained in home developed tactics developed during its journey spanning 215 years. They are also trained in to very high levels of proficiency in the use and tactical employment of an unusually wide degree of modern weaponry, IED’s and IW’s IITM, explosive devices and more than 30 most widely used firearms (foreign and domestic), hand to hand combat, high performance/tactical driving (on and off road), apprehension avoidance (including picking handcuffs and escaping from confinement), improvised explosive devices, cyberwarfare, covert channels, parachuting, SCUBA diving, proficiency in foreign multiple languages, surreptitious entry operations (picking or otherwise bypassing locks), vehicle hot-wiring, Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE), extreme survival and wilderness training, combat EMS medical training, tactical communications, and tracking. After the fall of Soviet Union they got some knowledge of the Soviet Spetsnaz.

  • Recruitment
Today it consists of personal from SSG, SSW, and SSGN on deputation, Police force personal from all over the country and its own hand picked and highly trained personal.

@MastanKhan @Horus @Oscar @Zarvan @Pomegranate @Akheilos @RescueRanger @hassan1 @Manticore @Devil Soul @levina @syedali73 @Irfan Baloch

All material in Post is gathered through different sources may not be fully trust able but still provides,some outlook into CAD.History section also includes predecessor Unit History

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Finally incontrovertible proof that the Pakistani Army invaded Kashmir that no Pakistani wants to believe but blame India instead. The PA with the help of the tribesmen managed to reach the outskirts of Srinagar when the Indian Army arrived just in time and threw them back to what is now known as the LoC.

so your victory was saving half from invaders while loosing the other half, May Lord Shiva grant you many more victories like that.
 
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The worst thing happened on planet Earth an uninformed Indian getting an Internet connection and an account on social media.
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And disaster when he gets an account on PDF and is allowed to shit by generous Admin....

P.S Punjab Regiment of Pakistan Army created 1759,FF in 1843 reo in 1957,Baloch in 1798,
Khyber rifles in 1878,FC in 1907,ZM in 1852,CS in 1903, CM in 1907.

Now I am sure many of these units are also work of fiction.
 
The worst thing happened on planet Earth an uninformed Indian getting an Internet connection and an account on social media.
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And disaster when he gets an account on PDF and is allowed to shit by generous Admin....

P.S Punjab Regiment of Pakistan Army created 1759,FF in 1843 reo in 1957,Baloch in 1798,
Khyber rifles in 1878,FC in 1907,ZM in 1852,CS in 1903, CM in 1907.

Now I am sure many of these units are also work of fiction.
What's the source of the OP of this thread? Some site or your imagination?
 
Do you always talk like an ignoramus? Have you even read the accounts of your own generals who took part in Pakistan's invasion of Kashmir. If not, then stop spewing rubbish.

Read the link below. The invasion was led by Brigadier Akbar Khan , DSO.

The tribesmen were brought from the NWFP tribal areas on trucks requisitioned by Government of Pakistan and concentrated in Batrasi north-east of Abbottabad for the invasion of Kashmir. The invasion was to commence from 20th October 1947; the main northern tribal force invading Kashmir under Khurshid Anwar on Abbottabad-Garhi Habibullah-Muzaffarabad-Srinagar axis with a smaller auxiliary force advancing along Murree-Kohala-Muzaffarabad axis.

More here from the Pakistani perspective on the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir. If you are educated enough then you'll realise who attacked Kashmir and who threw your forces back to where the present LoC is. The utter nonsense you have written is laughable. Get into the habit of reading before shooting from the hip

Full text of "THE 1947-48 Kashmir War The war of lost opportunities"



Before That Dogra Maharaja Brought In RSS Hindu and Sikh Extremists and Carried Out A Holocaust Of Muslims In Jammu.When He Tried Do The Same Thing In The Valley A Rebellion Erupted In Poonch and Bagh Led By Mujahid e Awal Sardar Abdul Qayum Khan and Sardar Ibrahim Khan.They Invted Pashtun Tribesman To Help Them.

Don't Spread Half Truths
 
Do you always talk like an ignoramus? Have you even read the accounts of your own generals who took part in Pakistan's invasion of Kashmir. If not, then stop spewing rubbish.

Read the link below. The invasion was led by Brigadier Akbar Khan , DSO.

The tribesmen were brought from the NWFP tribal areas on trucks requisitioned by Government of Pakistan and concentrated in Batrasi north-east of Abbottabad for the invasion of Kashmir. The invasion was to commence from 20th October 1947; the main northern tribal force invading Kashmir under Khurshid Anwar on Abbottabad-Garhi Habibullah-Muzaffarabad-Srinagar axis with a smaller auxiliary force advancing along Murree-Kohala-Muzaffarabad axis.

More here from the Pakistani perspective on the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir. If you are educated enough then you'll realise who attacked Kashmir and who threw your forces back to where the present LoC is. The utter nonsense you have written is laughable. Get into the habit of reading before shooting from the hip

Full text of "THE 1947-48 Kashmir War The war of lost opportunities"
u must stop acting like a sympathesizer. delhi invaded and illegally engulfed Hyderabad, Goa, Junagarh... and Sikkim, where they ceat every way.
BTW, Kashmir isn't ur property. it's of Muslim population lives there. delhi occupying it illegally... no hazzy pazzy typed bla bla bla allowed about Kashmir from occupiers

@Zarvan boss some guys derailing discussion. maybe for their burnings... could u manage some burnols

I wonder why some Indian members have to make every Pakistan related thread a troll fest? What purpose it serves?
Usually someone picks a line or two from the article and next you have a brigade telling you,
  • How you lost in 1971
  • How you lost all the wars
  • how you are going to lose Balochistan & Sindh
  • How only Indians know the real history and Pakistani members only know Pakistan studies' history
  • How Pakistan is a poor and economically nonviable country
Whats wrong with them?
just don't reply them. they're high level weed smoker troller. they're good only to create messes and for that there r vry low number of toilets
 
There should be a rule to release information after 10 years of Intelligence Ops. We want to hear ISI stories all through out its history.
 
  • Directorate of Covert Operations (Unofficial Name)
DAC is generally considered to be one of the most secretive Special Operations Force of Pakistan's security apparatus. DAC is responsible for paramilitary and covert operations as well as special activities. They are also tasked to collect INTEL in extremely hostile environment, battlefields and act as a special warfare unit of the ISI.
  • Mission
These operatives often operate in remote locations behind enemy lines to carry out Deep Penetration, Covert Direct Action (including raids and sabotage), Counter-Intelligence, Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare, Counter-Terrorism, and Hostage Rescue missions, in addition to being able to conduct espionage via HUMINT assets.

  • Engagements
  • 1800–1837 (Afghan-Sikh Wars)
  • 1838–48 (First Afghan War to Second Sikh War)
  • 1849–58 (Second Sikh War to Sepoy Revolt)
  • 1859–1878 (Sepoy Revolt to Second Afghan War)
  • 1878–1898 (Second Afghan War to Frontier Rebellion)
  • 1898–1914 (Frontier Revolt to Great War)
  • 1914–1918 (First World War)
  • 1919–39 (between the wars)
  • 1940–1947 (Second World War to independence)
  • 1947-1948(War is Kashmir)
  • 1964-1965(Indo Pak War)
  • 1971(Indo Pak War)
  • 1980-1987(Soviet War In Afghanistan, Siachen conflict)
  • 1998-1999(Kargil War)
  • 2000-2015(Indo Pak Border Skirmishes and War on terror)
  • 1948-2015(LOC border skirmishes)
  • Several undisclosed Operation’s.
  • History and Formation
Originally a Pashtun militia, fought several battles in last 215 years starting from Sikhs then British and finally was merged in OCT 1947 with PA, were tasked to liberate Kashmir and in spite of no area knowledge and no good weaponry succeeded in liberating huge part of Kashmir. After formation of ISI in 1948 and problems caused by FIQAR of IPI, a group of die hard operatives from militia and Gilgit scouts were taken and trained, they later formed a new directorate of the ISI, their main task was to counter influence of FIQAR of IPI and if he starts an insurgency with the help of Afghans, they were to cause a denial of battlefield dominance until the main force of Pakistan Army arrived. In the start they were mostly formed out of Pashtun Guerilla fighters who fought the Sikhs and the British from father to son that’s why the Covert Action Division traces its history back to 1800 as well as retains covert war-fighting knowledge going back by more than 200 years. Until the formation of the SS Group, it was a dedicated Special Operations unit, in the 1960 they were known to the West only in name but the situation changed in 1980 when DAC received training from the CIA, later assisted the Afghan Mujahideen in many battles against the Soviet Army. Until November 1954 the unit was mostly aimed to counter insurgency in Waziristan but after that its role was slowly expanded as a new unit was raised in East Pakistan. The working mechanism of the DAC remains classified as they belong to a creed of operatives which operate totally under a thick and dark blanket of secrecy and too little of their work is ever made public.

  • Training
CAD operatives are trained in home developed tactics developed during its journey spanning 215 years. They are also trained in to very high levels of proficiency in the use and tactical employment of an unusually wide degree of modern weaponry, IED’s and IW’s IITM, explosive devices and more than 30 most widely used firearms (foreign and domestic), hand to hand combat, high performance/tactical driving (on and off road), apprehension avoidance (including picking handcuffs and escaping from confinement), improvised explosive devices, cyberwarfare, covert channels, parachuting, SCUBA diving, proficiency in foreign multiple languages, surreptitious entry operations (picking or otherwise bypassing locks), vehicle hot-wiring, Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE), extreme survival and wilderness training, combat EMS medical training, tactical communications, and tracking. After the fall of Soviet Union they got some knowledge of the Soviet Spetsnaz.

  • Recruitment
Today it consists of personal from SSG, SSW, and SSGN on deputation, Police force personal from all over the country and its own hand picked and highly trained personal.

@MastanKhan @Horus @Oscar @Zarvan @Pomegranate @Akheilos @RescueRanger @hassan1 @Manticore @Devil Soul @levina @syedali73 @Irfan Baloch

All material in Post is gathered through different sources may not be fully trust able but still provides,some outlook into CAD.History section also includes predecessor Unit History
Assalam o Alaikum
Can you provide some sources for this information. And are they the best "Special Operations Force" of Pakistan? Do they see a lot of combat? I once asked an ex-SSG officer and ex-ISI soldier( two different men) about what is the "Covert Action Division" and they were like they don't even know what it is. They weren't hiding something(which looked like from their reactions) but it was like they heard the name for first time. I never got an official source stating the name "Covert Action Division" or stating that Special Paramilitary OPs and Covert OPs are given to any unit other than the SSG . The ex-ISI guy told me that SSG is highly used by ISI mostly for Covert OPs and the real training of SSG(which is carried in a classified manner) is hard like hell. He was like Toba Toba it is so tough. He said that he had seen it once(or a part of it).
Thanks
And admin please don't delete my post for sharing classified or high level info. The ISI guy I met wasn't like the James Bond of Pakistan. He was a very simple average-level guy of ISI who I think had only spent two or three years in it.
@Sine Nomine @Horus @PanzerKiel @Foxtrot Alpha @Reichmarshal @Metal 0-1 @Big Tank @ghazi52
 
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And admin please don't delete my post for sharing classified or high level info. The ISI guy I met wasn't like the James Bond of Pakistan. He was a very simple average-level guy of ISI who I think had only spent two or three years in it.

Admin is coming to your location in a black Vigo.
 

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