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. 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]

Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Incumbent 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 current DG of ISI is Lt. General Nadeem Anjum since 20 November 2021.

List of Directors

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#	Name	Start of term	End of term	Length of term (years, days)
1	Brigadier Syed Shahid Hamid^[3] HJ	14 July 1948	20 June 1950	1 year, 341 days
2	Major General Robert Cawthome	June 1950	October 1959
3	Brigadier^[1] Riaz Hussain^[3]	October 1959	May 1966
4	Major General Muhammed Akbar Khan^[4]	May 1966	September 1971
5	Major General^[2] Ghulam Jilani Khan	September 1971^[5]	16 September 1978^[6]
6	Major General Muhammad Riaz Khan	17 September 1978	20 June 1979
7	Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman NI(M) HI(M)	21 June 1979	29 March 1987
8	Lieutenant General Hamid Gul HI(M) SBt	29 March 1987	29 May 1989
9	Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallu HI(M) TBt	30 May 1989	August 1990
10	Lieutenant General Asad Durrani HI(M)	August 1990	13 March 1992
11	Lieutenant General Javed Nasir HI(M) SBt	14 March 1992	13 May 1993
12	Lieutenant General Javed Ashraf Qazi HI(M) SBt	14 May 1993	October 1995
13	Lieutenant General Naseem Rana	October 1995	October 1998^[6]
14	Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt HI(M)	October 1998	12 October 1999
15	Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed HI(M)	20 October 1999	7 October 2001
16	Lieutenant General Ehsan ul Haq HI(M)	7 October 2001	5 October 2004
17	Lieutenant General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani HI(M) SI(M) TI(M)	5 October 2004	8 October 2007
18	Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj HI(M) TBt	9 October 2007	29 September 2008
29	Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha HI(M)	1 October 2008	18 March 2012
20	Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam HI(M)	19 March 2012	7 November 2014
21	Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar	7 November 2014	11 December 2016
22	Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar	11 December 2016	25 October 2018
23	Lieutenant General Asim Munir HI(M)	25 October 2018	16 June 2019
24	Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed HI(M)	17 June 2019	19 Nov 2021
25	Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum	20 Nov 2021	Incumbent
26	Lieutenant General Asim Malik Appointed	1 October 2024

References

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^ "Average tenure of 22 ISI chiefs in 70 years has been 3.18 years". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
^ "Maj-Gen Robert Cawthome was the longest-serving ISI chief". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
^ ^a ^b Kiessling, Hein (2016). Faith, Unity, Discipline. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-84904-863-7.
^ "General Mohammed Akbar Khan (and some others)".
^ Sirrs, Owen L. (2016). Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-317-19609-9.
^ ^a ^b "Lt. Gen Zaheer is 18th DG ISI since 1959". www.geo.tv. Retrieved 2021-04-04.