No surprise a former Indian intelligence officer (known to the author) weighs in with a review and a devastating "taster":
At the same time, their remarks on current decision makers or ‘hawkish’ career foreign service off#icials (Part IV: Kabuki) might excite the media, but do not help either country in finding solutions.
Link:https://www.outlookindia.com/magazin...f-spies/300246

I'd heard of the close ISI-Taliban relationship, but missed a RAW defector to the USA in 2004:
Durrani claims that no ISI man had ‘def#ected’, like from RAW. Quite true. The last big defector, Rabinder Singh, could flee due to RAW’s own intransigence of not handing over the investigation to the IB. But then, no other official espionage agency has been in the swim with terrorists as the ISI. The classic example is ISI stalwart Col. Imam (Sul#tan Amir Tarar) who, along with Naseerullah Babar, had created the Taliban in 1994 with the help of then DGMO Pervez Musharraf, by giving them the entire Pakistani arms cache in Spin Boldak on the Pakistan-Afg#ha#ni#stan border.
A very short explanation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabind...gence_officer)