Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence

Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Incumbent Lieutenant General 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 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. Robert Cawthome became instrumental in expanding the ISI and has been the longest serving director-general.

The current DG of ISI is Lt. General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum since 20 November 2021.

List of directors-general

#	Portrait	Name	Start of term	End of term	Unit of commission	Period as DG	Prime Minister
1		Major General Syed Shahid Hamid, HJ	14 July 1948	20 June 1950	3rd Cavalry	1 year, 11 months, 7 days
2		Major General Robert Cawthome	20 June 1950	1959	N/A	9 years, 1 day 20 Jun considered for EoT
3		Major General Riaz Hussain	1959	1966	N/A	7 years, 1 day
4		Major General Mohammed Akbar Khan	1966	May 1971	Punjab Regiment	4 years, 11 months, 1 day
5		Major General Ghulam Jilani Khan	16 December 1971	16 September 1978	2nd (Guides) FF	7 years, 1 day
6		Lieutenant General Muhammad Riaz Khan	17 September 1978	20 June 1979	N/A	6 months, 4 days
7		Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan, NI(M) HI(M)	21 June 1979	29 March 1987	2 Field Regiment	7 years, 9 months, 9 days
8		Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, HI(M) SBt	29 March 1987	29 May 1989	19th Lancers	2 years, 2 months, 1 days
9		Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallu, HI(M) TBt	30 May 1989	August 1990	5th Horse	1 year, 3 months, 1 day 30 Aug considered for EoT
10		Lieutenant General Asad Ahmed Durrani, HI(M)	August 1990	13 March 1992	39 Field Regiment	1 year, 6 months, 15 days
11		Lieutenant General Javed Nasir, HI(M) SBt	14 March 1992	13 May 1993	101 Engineers Battalion	1 year, 2 months
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	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	5 Frontier Force		Yousaf Raza Gillani
20		Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam, HI(M)	19 March 2012	7 November 2014	13 Punjab		Yousaf Raza Gillani Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Nawaz Sharif
21		Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar	7 November 2014	11 December 2016	4 FF Regiment		Nawaz Sharif
22		Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar	11 December 2016	25 October 2018	13th Lancers		Nawaz Sharif Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Imran Khan
23		Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir Ahmad Shah, HI(M)	25 October 2018	16 June 2019	23rd Frontier Force		Imran Khan
24		Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, HI(M)	17 June 2019	19 Nov 2021	20th Baloch		Imran Khan
26		Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum	20 Nov 2021	Incumbent	28th Punjab		Imran Khan Shebaz Sharif Anwaar ul Haq Kakar (Caretaker)

Notes

1.^ Later promoted to major general in-office.

2.^ Later promoted to lieutenant general in-office.