Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence will brief a Parliamentary committee about its overt and covert operations for the first time.

"The ISI will brief the Senate's Standing Committee on Defence about its organisational structure and activities," Committee Chairman Nisar Memon said. "I do not think if the ISI has ever been directed in the past for briefing about its activities," Memon was quoted as saying by Pakistan's daily The Post.

Memon, however, refused to divulge the date of the briefing. The ISI's briefing is in line with a series of briefings being given to the committee by various organisations that come in the purview of the defence ninistry, the paper reported.

Controlled and operated by Pakistan's military, the ISI has often been accused of acting as a state within a state. ISI carries out its intelligence operations both within and outside Pakistan. While its external operations mainly centre around containing India and controlling a host of militant groups, Pakistan's opposition parties accuse it of interfering with elections as well as the day-today running of the government.