Pakistani intelligence sought huge data collection tools: report

Sinister effort: A report says Pakistan's ISI aimed to tap data from three of the four

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani intelligence sought to tap worldwide Internet traffic via underwater cables that would have given the country a digital espionage capacity to rival the US, according to a report by Privacy International. 

The report says the country’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency hired intermediary companies to acquire domestic spying toolkits from Western and Chinese firms for domestic surveillance.