| Post: | Director-General |
| Body: | Inter-Services Intelligence |
| Insigniasize: | 80px |
| Department: | Inter-Services Intelligence |
| Incumbent: | Asim Malik |
| Incumbentsince: | 30 September 2024 |
| Abbreviation: | DG ISI |
| Member Of: | National Security Council |
| Appointer: | Prime Minister |
| Termlength: | 3 years |
| Residence: | Chaklala, Rawalpindi |
| Formation: | 1948 |
| Inaugural: | Walter Cawthorn |
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. 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]
| Portrait | Name | Start of term | End of term | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Major GeneralWalter Cawthorn | January 1948 | June 1948 | ||
| 2 | 14 July 1948[4] [5] | 22 August 1950 | |||
| 3 | BrigadierMirza Hamid Hussain | 23 August 1950[6] | May 1951 | ||
| 4 | ColonelMuhammad Afzal Malik | May 1951 | April 1953 | ||
| 5 | BrigadierSyed Ghawas | April 1953 | August 1955 | ||
| 6 | BrigadierSher Bahadur | August 1955 | September 1957 | ||
| 7 | BrigadierMuhammad Hayat | September 1957 | October 1959 | ||
| 8 | BrigadierRiaz Hussain | October 1959 | May 1966 | ||
| 9 | Major GeneralMuhammed Akbar Khan[7] | May 1966 | September 1971 | ||
| 10 | Major GeneralGhulam Jilani Khan | September 1971[8] | 16 September 1978[9] | ||
| 11 | Lieutenant GeneralMuhammad Riaz Khan | 17 September 1978 | 20 June 1979 | ||
| 12 | Lieutenant GeneralAkhtar Abdur Rahman | 21 June 1979 | 29 March 1987 | ||
| 13 | Lieutenant GeneralHamid Gul | 29 March 1987 | 29 May 1989 | ||
| 14 | Lieutenant GeneralShamsur Rahman Kallu | 30 May 1989 | August 1990 | ||
| 15 | Lieutenant GeneralAsad Durrani | August 1990 | 13 March 1992 | ||
| 16 | Lieutenant GeneralJaved Nasir | 14 March 1992 | 13 May 1993 | ||
| 17 | Lieutenant GeneralJaved Ashraf Qazi | 14 May 1993 | October 1995 | ||
| 18 | Lieutenant GeneralNaseem Rana | October 1995 | October 1998 | ||
| 19 | Lieutenant GeneralZiauddin Butt | October 1998 | 12 October 1999 | ||
| 20 | Lieutenant GeneralMahmud Ahmed | 20 October 1999 | 7 October 2001 | ||
| 21 | Lieutenant GeneralEhsan ul Haq | 7 October 2001 | 5 October 2004 | ||
| 22 | Lieutenant GeneralAshfaq Parvez Kayani | 5 October 2004 | 8 October 2007 | ||
| 23 | Lieutenant GeneralNadeem Taj | 9 October 2007 | 29 September 2008 | ||
| 24 | Lieutenant GeneralAhmad Shuja Pasha | 1 October 2008 | 18 March 2012 | ||
| 25 | Lieutenant GeneralZaheerul Islam | 19 March 2012 | 7 November 2014 | ||
| 26 | Lieutenant GeneralRizwan Akhtar | 7 November 2014 | 11 December 2016 | ||
| 27 | Lieutenant GeneralNaveed Mukhtar | 11 December 2016 | 25 October 2018 | ||
| 28 | Lieutenant GeneralAsim Munir | 25 October 2018 | 16 June 2019 | ||
| 29 | Lieutenant GeneralFaiz Hameed | 17 June 2019 | 19 Nov 2021 | ||
| 30 | Lieutenant GeneralNadeem Anjum | 20 November 2021 | 29 September 2024 | ||
| 31 | Lieutenant GeneralAsim Malik | 30 September 2024 | Incumbent |
