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In July 2022, he was promoted to the rank of Major General. [5] Later, in the same year, he was designated as the Director General (Counterintelligence) DG(C), effectively making him the second-in-command of the ISI, overseeing internal security and counterintelligence. [2]
The Inter-Services Intelligence was established in 1948. It was the brainchild of Major General Walter Cawthorn, then Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army, following the First Kashmir War which had exposed weaknesses in intelligence gathering, sharing, and coordination between the army, air force, navy, Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI).
Walter Cawthorn had conceived the idea of ISI. Afterwards, Brigadier Syed Shahid Hamid took over and was later promoted to a two-star rank of a major general and became the second director-general of the ISI. [1] [2] The current DG of ISI is Lt. General Asim Malik since 30 September 2024. [3]
General Officer Commanding 14 Infantry Division, (GOC 14 Inf Div), Okara 105 Yahya Usman Gondal 9 Sindh Regiment 89 PMA LC General Officer Commanding 18 Infantry Division, (GOC 18 Inf Div), Hyderabad. 106 Shoaib Bin Akram 23 Frontier Force Regiment 89 PMA LC General Officer Commanding 10 Infantry Division, (GOC 10 Inf Div), Lahore. Tamgha-e-Basalat
Major-General Faiz Hameed served as head of the ISI (Counter Intelligence Wing), better known as (DG-C) from 2017 to 2019. Later as Lieutenant General Hameed served as Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence (DG-ISI) from June 2019 to 6 October 2021. He was the 29th Director-General of ISI.
Muhammad Asim Malik, HI(M) is a Pakistani three-star general and the current Director-General of Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), a position he has held since 30 September 2024. [1] [2] He is the first PhD holder to be appointed Director-General of the ISI. [3]
Nadeem Anjum was born into a Punjabi Shaikh family. He hails from the village of Mohra Sheikhan located in Kauntrila, in the Gujar Khan Tehsil of Rawalpindi District. [4]A product of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), Anjum is a graduate from the National Defence University (NDU) and later earned a master's degree from King's College, London, having also studied at the Asia-Pacific Centre ...
As a result, ISI, under the command of Major General Ghulam Jilani Khan set up a 5,000-strong Afghan guerrilla troop, which would include influential future leaders like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Burhanuddin Rabbani and Ahmed Shah Masood, to target the Afghan government, the first large operation, in 1975, being the sponsoring of an armed rebellion ...