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Pakistan Army announces Lt Gen Faiz Hameed as new ISI chief

Hameed was appointed as the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (DG ISI) in place of Lt Gen Asim Munir, who was transferred and appointed as Corps Commander Gujranwala.

New Delhi: Pakistan Army announced the new chief of its spy agency ISI on Sunday. Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed will  be the new director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), reports said citing government spokesperson. As per reports, Pakistani military has announced a number of high-level appointments and transfers in its ranks, most notably the appointment of Hameed. Hameed was appointed as the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (DG ISI) in place of Lt Gen Asim Munir, who was transferred and appointed as Corps Commander Gujranwala. Gen Munir was appointed as ISI chief in October last year after the retirement of his predecessor Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar. On April 12, the Pakistan Army promoted then-Major General Hameed to the rank of lieutenant general and appointed him Adjutant General at the General Headquarters (GHQ) later that month. He was previously serving as the head of the Counter Intelligence wing in the ISI, Geo News reported. Gen Hameed is from the Baloch Regiment. He was in-charge of the internal security wing at the ISI. He has commanded a division in Pano Aqil. He was also among those who brokered the Faizabad agreement in 2017 between protesters from various religious groups and the then government, signing the agreement in the capacity of ‘guarantor’, the Dawn reported.
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