Lt Gen Faiz Hameed becomes Pakistan’s new ISI chief

KARACHI: Pakistan has appointed Lt Gen Faiz Hameed as the new director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the country’s premier spy agency, the army’s media wing announced on Sunday.
Hameed has replaced Lt Gen Asim Muneer, who will now serve as commander Gujranwala Corps, a military spokesman told Arab News.
Muneer had assumed his responsibilities at the ISI last year after the retirement of Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar who served the spy agency for over eight months.
As part of the recent transfers, Lt Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza has been appointed as the adjutant general of Pakistan Army while Lt Gen Aamir Abbasi has been named the quarter master at the General Headquarters, Rawalpindi.
Lt Gen Hameed, who belongs to the army’s Baloch regiment, was made in-charge of the internal security wing of the ISI two months ago. He had brokered the Faizabad agreement in November 2017 between a group of protesters belonging to the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party and the former administration of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
Hameed was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in April 2019.