Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence

The Director-General 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. The current DG ISI is Faiz Hameed since 17 June 2019.[1]

Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Incumbent Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed since 17 june 2019
Residence	Chaklala, Rawalpindi
Appointer	Prime Minister on recommendation of Chief of Army Staff
Term length	3 - 5 Years (Depending on Performance)
Inaugural holder	Syed Shahid Hamid
Formation	1948

Directors-General

#	Lieutenant-General	Name	Start of term	End of term
1		Maj Gen.Robert Cawthome	1948	1950
2		Maj Gen.Syed Shahid Hamid	1950	1959
3		Riaz Hussain	1959	1966
4		Mohammad Akbar Khan	1966	1971
5		Ghulam Jilani Khan	1971	1977
6		Muhammad Riaz	1977	1979
7		Akhtar Abdur Rahman	June 1979	March 1987
8		Hameed Gul	March 1987	May 1989
9		Shamsur Rahman Kallu	May 1989	August 1990
10		Asad Durrani	August 1990	March 1992
11		Javed Nasir	March 1992	May 1993
12		Javed Ashraf Qazi	May 1993	1995
13		Naseem Rana	October 1995	October 1998
14		Ziauddin Butt	October 1998	October 1999
15		Mahmud Ahmed	October 1999	October 2001
16		Ehsan ul Haq	October 2001	October 2004
17		Ashfaq Parvez Kayani	October 2004	October 2007
18		Nadeem Taj	October 2007	October 2008
19		Ahmad Shuja Pasha	October 2008	March 2012
20		Zaheerul Islam	March 2012	November 2014
21		Rizwan Akhtar	November 2014	December 2016
22		Naveed Mukhtar	December 2016	October 2018
23		Asim Munir	October 2018	16 June 2019
24		Faiz Hameed	17 June 2019	Present

References

1. "Lt. Gen Faiz Hameed appointed as DG ISI among new appointments in Pakistan army". www.thenews.com.pk. 2019-06-16. Retrieved 2019-06-16.