Islamabad : Lieutenant General Muhammad Asim Malik has been appointed as the Inter-Services Intelligence director general and will take charge on September 30.
\nThe announcement was run by state broadcaster PTV News on its official X account.
\nThis screengrab taken at 2:25pm on Sept 23, 2024 shows a post by PTV News on its official X account.
\nGen Malik is currently serving as an adjutant general at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the statement said.
\nIn October 2021, then-Major General Asim Malik had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, as well as appointed the army\u2019s adjutant general.
\nDuring his military career, Gen Malik has served in the Balochistan infantry division and commanded the infantry brigade in Waziristan, PTV News said.
\nIt highlighted that the new DG ISI had been awarded a Sword of Honour in his course.
\nOther than that, Gen Malik has also served as the chief instructor at the National Defence University in Islamabad and as an instructor at the Command and Staff College Quetta.
\nThe military officer is a graduate of Fort Leavenworth in the United States and the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, the statement added.
\nThe newly appointed official will be replacing Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum, who was appointed in 2021 by then-prime minister Imran Khan.
\nGen Anjum, who was commissioned in service in September 1988, earlier headed Corps V in Karachi. He commanded a brigade in Kurram Agency, led Frontier Corps (North) in Balochistan, and remained commandant of Command and Staff College Quetta before becoming Karachi corps commander in December 2020.
\nHis appointment had come after nearly three weeks of an alleged standoff between the military and the government over the appointment of Pakistan\u2019s new spymaster.
\nThe army had announced on Oct 6, 2021 that the former ISI chief, Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, had been made the Peshawar corps commander, while Lt Gen Anjum was appointed in his place. But the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) had not since issued an official notification of Lt Gen Anjum\u2019s appointment, leading to rumours about strains in civil-military relations.
\nAccording to experts in defence matters, the procedure for appointment of the ISI director general is neither mentioned in the Constitution nor the Army Act, and all previous appointments were made as per traditions under which the army chief proposes three names to the prime minister who then makes the final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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