Who is Lt Gen Asim Malik?
Lieutenant General Muhammad Asim Malik has been appointed new chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence.
The announcement was made by the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) in a press release issued on Monday.
Lt Gen. Malik has replaced Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum as the spymaster and will take charge of his new command on September 30.
Gen 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.
Currently, he is serving as the adjutant general at the General Headquarters (GHQ).
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Who is Lt Gen Asim Malik?
Newly appointed ISI director general has served as the commander of Infantry Division, Balochistan.
In October 2021, then-Major General Asim Malik had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, as well as appointed the army’s adjutant general.
During the course of his military career, Gen Malik has served in the Balochistan infantry division and commanded the infantry brigade in Waziristan, the ISPR statement said.
It highlighted that the new DG ISI had been awarded an “honorary sword in his course”.
Other than that, Gen Malik had also served as the chief instructor at the National Defence University and as an instructor at the Command and Staff College Quetta.
The military officer is a graduate of Fort Leavenworth in the United States and Royal College of Defence Studies in London.
