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] Walter Cawthorn[1] Syed Shahid HamidHJ Mirza Hamid Hussain[4] Muhammad Afzal Malik[4] Syed Ghawas[4] Malik Sher Bahadur Muhammad Hayat Riaz Hussain[4] Muhammad Akbar Khan[7] Ghulam Jilani Khan Muhammad Riaz Khan Akhtar Abdur RahmanNI(M) HI(M) Hamid GulHI(M) SBt Shamsur Rahman KalluHI(M) TBt Asad DurraniHI(M) Javed NasirHI(M) SBt Javed Ashraf QaziHI(M) SBt Naseem Rana Ziauddin ButtHI(M) Mahmud AhmedHI(M) Ehsan ul HaqHI(M) Ashfaq Parvez KayaniHI(M) SI(M) TI(M) Nadeem TajHI(M) TBt Ahmad Shuja PashaHI(M) Zaheerul IslamHI(M) Rizwan Akhtar Naveed Mukhtar Asim MunirHI(M) Faiz HameedHI(M) Nadeem Anjum Asim Malik