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