Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence

The Director-General (DG) is head of the Inter-Services Intelligence, 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 become the first Director-General of the ISI.^[1] Major General 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 20th November 2021.

List of Directors-General[]

#	Portrait	Name	Start of term	End of term	Unit of Commission
1		Colonel[1] Syed Shahid Hamid, HJ	14 July 1948	20 June 1950	3rd Cavalry
2		Brigadier[2] Robert Cawthome	20 June 1950	1959	N/A
3		Brigadier[3] Riaz Hussain	1959	1966	N/A
4		Major General[4]	1966	15 December 1971	Punjab Regiment
5		Major General[5] Ghulam Jilani Khan	16 December 1971	16 September 1978[3]	2nd (Guides) FF
6		Lieutenant General Muhammad Riaz Khan	17 September 1978	20 June 1979	N/A
7		Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan, NI(M) HI(M)	21 June 1979	29 March 1987	2 Field Regiment
8		Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, HI(M) SBt	29 March 1987	29 May 1989	19th Lancers
9		Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallu, HI(M) TBt	30 May 1989	August 1990	5th Horse
10		Lieutenant General Asad Ahmed Durrani, HI(M)	August 1990	13 March 1992	39 Field Regiment
11		Lieutenant General Javed Nasir, HI(M) SBt	14 March 1992	13 May 1993	101 Engineers Battalion
12		Lieutenant General Javed Ashraf Qazi, HI(M) SBt	14 May 1993	October 1995	16 (SP) Medium Regt
13		Lieutenant General Naseem Rana	October 1995	October 1998[3]	Corps of Signals
14		Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt, HI(M)	October 1998	12 October 1999	Corps of Engineers
15		Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed, HI(M)	20 October 1999	7 October 2001	16 (SP) Medium Regt
16		Lieutenant General Ehsan ul Haq, HI(M)	7 October 2001	5 October 2004	19 (SP) LAA Regt
17		Lieutenant General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, HI(M) SI(M) TI(M)	5 October 2004	8 October 2007	5 Baloch (Burma)
18		Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj, HI(M) TBt	9 October 2007	29 September 2008	11 Punjab
19		Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, HI(M)	1 October 2008	18 March 2012	Frontier Force
20		Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam, HI(M)	19 March 2012	7 November 2014	13 Punjab
21		Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar	7 November 2014	11 December 2016	4 FF Regiment
22		Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar	11 December 2016	25 October 2018	13th Lancers
23		Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir Ahmad Shah, HI(M)	25 October 2018	16 June 2019	23rd Frontier Force
24		Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, HI(M)	17 June 2019	19 Nov 2021	20th Baloch
25		Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum,	20 Nov 2021	Incumbent	28th Punjab

Notes[]

1.^ Later promoted to Major General in-office.

2.^ Later promoted to Lieutenant General in-office.

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