The Director-General (DG) is head of the

Inter-Services Intelligence The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the premier Pakistani Intelligence community, intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant t ...

(ISI), Pakistan's premier

intelligence service An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives. Means of info ...

, operationally responsible for providing critical

national security National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and Defence (military), defence of a sovereign state, including its Citizenship, citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of ...

and intelligence assessment to the

government of Pakistan The Government of Pakistan () (abbreviated as GoP), constitutionally known as the Federal Government, commonly known as the Centre, is the national authority of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a federal republic located in South Asia, con ...

Walter Cawthorn Sir#Australia, Sir Walter Joseph Cawthorn (11 June 1896 – 4 December 1970), better known as ''Bill Cawthorn'', also known as ''W. J. Cawthorn'' and ''Wally Cawthorn,'' was an Australian former two-star rank general who also served in the Brit ...

had conceived the idea of ISI. Afterwards, Brigadier

Syed Shahid Hamid Syed Shahid Hamid (), HJ (17 September 1910 – 12 March 1993) was a two-star general in the Pakistan Army, and a close associate of President Ayub Khan. Hamid was the first Master General of Ordnance (MGO) of the Pakistan Army. ISI was f ...

took over and was later promoted to a two-star rank of a major general and became the second director-general of the ISI. The current DG of ISI is

Lt. General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was normall ...

Asim Malik Muhammad Asim Malik, 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. He is the first PhD holder to be appointed Director-General of the ISI. ...

since 30 September 2024.

List of directors

References

{{Inter-Services Intelligence Pakistani military appointments *Pakistan