Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence | |
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Incumbent Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum since 20 November 2021 | |
Inter-Services Intelligence | |
Abbreviation | DG ISI |
Member of | National Security Council |
Residence | Chaklala, Rawalpindi |
Appointer | Prime Minister |
Term length | 3 years |
Inaugural holder | Maj. General Shahid Hamid |
Formation | 1948 |
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. Colonel Shahid Hamid had conceived the idea of ISI. He was later promoted to a two-star rank of a major general and became the first director-general of the ISI.[1] Robert Cawthome became instrumental in expanding the ISI and has been the longest serving director-general.[2]
The current DG of ISI is Lt. General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum since 20 November 2021.
List of directors-general
# | Portrait | Name | Start of term | End of term | Unit of commission | Period as DG | Prime Minister |
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1 | Major General[1] Syed Shahid Hamid, HJ | 14 July 1948 | 20 June 1950 | 3rd Cavalry | 1 year, 11 months, 7 days | ||
2 | Major General[2] | 20 June 1950 | 1959 | N/A | 9 years, 1 day 20 Jun considered for EoT | ||
3 | Major General[3] Riaz Hussain | 1959 | 1966 | N/A | 7 years, 1 day | ||
4 | Major General[4] | 1966 | May 1971 | Punjab Regiment | 4 years, 11 months, 1 day | ||
5 | Major General[5] | 16 December 1971 | 16 September 1978[3] | 2nd (Guides) FF | 7 years, 1 day | ||
6 | Lieutenant General | 17 September 1978 | 20 June 1979 | N/A | 6 months, 4 days | ||
7 | Lieutenant General | 21 June 1979 | 29 March 1987 | 2 Field Regiment | 7 years, 9 months, 9 days | ||
8 | Lieutenant General | 29 March 1987 | 29 May 1989 | 19th Lancers | 2 years, 2 months, 1 days | ||
9 | Lieutenant General | 30 May 1989 | August 1990 | 5th Horse | 1 year, 3 months, 1 day 30 Aug considered for EoT | ||
10 | Lieutenant General | August 1990 | 13 March 1992 | 39 Field Regiment | 1 year, 6 months, 15 days | ||
11 | Lieutenant General | 14 March 1992 | 13 May 1993 | 101 Engineers Battalion | 1 year, 2 months | ||
12 | Lieutenant General | 14 May 1993 | October 1995 | 16 (SP) Medium Regt | |||
13 | Lieutenant General | October 1995 | October 1998[3] | Corps of Signals | |||
14 | Lieutenant General | October 1998 | 12 October 1999 | Corps of Engineers | |||
15 | Lieutenant General | 20 October 1999 | 7 October 2001 | 16 (SP) Medium Regt | |||
16 | Lieutenant General | 7 October 2001 | 5 October 2004 | 19 (SP) LAA Regt | |||
17 | Lieutenant General | 5 October 2004 | 8 October 2007 | 5 Baloch (Burma) | |||
18 | Lieutenant General | 9 October 2007 | 29 September 2008 | 11 Punjab | |||
19 | Lieutenant General | 1 October 2008 | 18 March 2012 | 5 Frontier Force | Yousaf Raza Gillani | ||
20 | Lieutenant General | 19 March 2012 | 7 November 2014 | 13 Punjab | Yousaf Raza Gillani Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Nawaz Sharif | ||
21 | Lieutenant General | 7 November 2014 | 11 December 2016 | 4 FF Regiment | Nawaz Sharif | ||
22 | Lieutenant General | 11 December 2016 | 25 October 2018 | 13th Lancers | Nawaz Sharif Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Imran Khan | ||
23 | Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir Ahmad Shah, HI(M) | 25 October 2018 | 16 June 2019 | 23rd Frontier Force | Imran Khan | ||
24 | Lieutenant General | 17 June 2019 | 19 Nov 2021 | 20th Baloch | Imran Khan | ||
26 | Lieutenant General | 20 Nov 2021 | Incumbent | 28th Punjab | Imran Khan Shebaz Sharif Anwaar ul Haq Kakar (Caretaker) Shebaz Sharif |
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References
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- Robert Cawthome
- Syed Shahid Hamid
- Riaz Hussain
- Akbar Khan
- Ghulam Jilani Khan
- Muhammad Riaz Khan
- Akhtar Abdur Rehman
- Hamid Gul
- Shamsur Rahman Kallu
- Asad Durrani
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- Javed Ashraf Qazi
- Naseem Rana
- Ziauddin Butt
- Mahmud Ahmed
- Ehsan ul Haq
- Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
- Nadeem Taj
- Ahmad Shuja Pasha
- Zaheerul Islam
- Rizwan Akhtar
- Naveed Mukhtar
- Asim Munir
- Faiz Hameed
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