Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
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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
| # | Portrait | Name | Start of term | End of term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brigadier Syed Shahid Hamid HJ | 1 January 1948 | 22 August 1950 | |
| 2 | Brigadier Mirza Hamid Hussain | 23 August 1950 | May 1951 | |
| 3 | Colonel Muhammad Afzal Malik | May 1951 | April 1953 | |
| 4 | Brigadier Syed Ghawas | April 1953 | August 1955 | |
| 5 | Brigadier Malik Sher Bahadur | August 1955 | September 1957 | |
| 6 | Brigadier Muhammad Hayat | September 1957 | October 1959 | |
| 7 | Brigadier[1] Riaz Hussain | October 1959 | May 1966 | |
| 8 | Major General Muhammad Akbar Khan | May 1966 | September 1971 | |
| 9 | Major General[2] Ghulam Jilani Khan | September 1971 | 16 September 1978 | |
| 10 | Lieutenant General Muhammad Riaz Khan | 17 September 1978 | 26 April 1979 | |
| 11 | Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman NI(M) HI(M) | 27 April 1979 | 29 March 1987 | |
| 12 | Lieutenant General Hamid Gul HI(M) SBt | 29 March 1987 | 29 May 1989 | |
| 13 | Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallu HI(M) TBt | 30 May 1989 | August 1990 | |
| 14 | Lieutenant General Asad Durrani HI(M) | August 1990 | 13 March 1992 | |
| 15 | Lieutenant General Javed Nasir HI(M) SBt | 14 March 1992 | 13 May 1993 | |
| 16 | Lieutenant General Javed Ashraf Qazi HI(M) SBt | 14 May 1993 | October 1995 | |
| 17 | Lieutenant General Naseem Rana | October 1995 | October 1998 | |
| 18 | Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt HI(M) | October 1998 | 12 October 1999 | |
| 19 | Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed HI(M) | 20 October 1999 | 7 October 2001 | |
| 20 | Lieutenant General Ehsan ul Haq HI(M) | 7 October 2001 | 5 October 2004 | |
| 21 | Lieutenant General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani HI(M) SI(M) TI(M) | 5 October 2004 | 8 October 2007 | |
| 22 | Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj HI(M) TBt | 9 October 2007 | 29 September 2008 | |
| 23 | Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha HI(M) | 1 October 2008 | 18 March 2012 | |
| 24 | Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam HI(M) | 19 March 2012 | 7 November 2014 | |
| 25 | Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar | 7 November 2014 | 11 December 2016 | |
| 26 | Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar | 11 December 2016 | 25 October 2018 | |
| 27 | Lieutenant General Asim Munir HI(M) | 25 October 2018 | 16 June 2019 | |
| 28 | Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed HI(M) | 17 June 2019 | 19 Nov 2021 | |
| 29 | Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum | 20 November 2021 | 29 September 2024 | |
| 30 | Lieutenant General Asim Malik | 30 September 2024 | Incumbent |