USA and CIA are keeping ISI alive to play their games on the subcontinent. No democracy in Pakistan can be termed a functional democracy if its intelligence service does not come under its purview. Pak army represents the British American design to break India into bits. More or less they have succeeded so far courtesy Sonia-Manmohan secret understanding with the US leadership. They were forced to release all proven convit parliamentarians before the vote on the issue. Money played a great part in winning a confedence vote.