The Director-General (DG) is head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence service, operationally responsible for providing critical national security and intelligence assessment to the government of Pakistan. Brigadier Syed Shahid Hamid had conceived the idea of ISI and became its first director-general.
The current DG of ISI is Lt. General Asim Malik since 30 September 2024.
List of directors #PortraitNameStart of termEnd of term1Brigadier Syed Shahid HamidHJ1 January 194822 August 19502Brigadier Mirza Hamid Hussain23 August 1950May 19513Colonel Muhammad Afzal MalikMay 1951April 19534Brigadier Syed GhawasApril 1953August 19555Brigadier Malik Sher BahadurAugust 1955September 19576Brigadier Muhammad HayatSeptember 1957October 19597Brigadier Riaz HussainOctober 1959May 19668Major General Muhammad Akbar KhanMay 1966September 19719Major General Ghulam Jilani KhanSeptember 197116 September 197810Lieutenant General Muhammad Riaz Khan17 September 197826 April 197911Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman27 April 1979 29 March 198712Lieutenant General Hamid Gul29 March 198729 May 198913Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallu30 May 1989August 199014Lieutenant General Asad Durrani21 August 199013 March 199215Lieutenant General Javed Nasir14 March 199213 May 199316Lieutenant General Javed Ashraf Qazi14 May 1993October 199517Lieutenant General Naseem RanaOctober 1995October 199818Lieutenant General Ziauddin ButtOctober 199812 October 199919Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed20 October 19997 October 200120Lieutenant General Ehsan ul Haq7 October 20015 October 200421Lieutenant General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani5 October 2004 8 October 200722Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj9 October 200729 September 200823Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha1 October 200818 March 201224Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam19 March 20127 November 201425Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar7 November 201411 December 201626Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar11 December 2016 25 October 201827Lieutenant General Asim Munir25 October 2018 16 June 201928Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed17 June 201919 Nov 202129 Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum 20 November 2021 29 September 202430Lieutenant General Asim Malik30 September 2024 Incumbent
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