LAHORE MIRROR — Lieutenant General Muhammad Asim Malik has been appointed as the Inter-Services Intelligence director general and will take charge on September 30.
The announcement was run by state broadcaster PTV News on its official X account. This screengrab taken at 2:25pm on Sept 23, 2024 shows a post by PTV News on its official X account.
Gen Malik is currently serving as an adjutant general at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the statement said.
He will be replacing Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum, who was appointed in 2021 by then-prime minister Imran Khan.
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.
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.
