Source: Semantic Scholar
Subject: Narrative Strategy and Identity
Intelligence Summary: Focuses on how Kamal Khan embodies the state’s struggle for sovereignty. Identifies the novel as a departure from colonial-era spy tropes. Replaces them with high-fidelity representations of localized intelligence tradecraft.
Source: ResearchGate Subject: Comparative Linguistic Study Intelligence Summary: Cites the novel as a benchmark for linguistic indigenization. Analyzes how the text utilizes English to project
Literary Archive: Dr Muhammad Shahbaz on Urdu-English code-mixing in Agency Rules as a tool of cultural identity and resistance to Western literary norms.
Voice of East reviews Agency Rules from a national security angle: its human portrait of the ISI, TTP operations and a counter to Western media narratives.
