Asim Malik

Asim Malik is a Pakistani three-star general who has directed the Inter-Services Intelligence since September 2024 and has also been National Security Adviser since April 2025 ^{1 2}.

Muhammad Asim Malik was born in Shahpur, in Sargodha District, Punjab, into a Punjabi Awan family; his father is Lt Gen (retd) Ghulam Muhammad Malik ^{2 1}. He took his BSc from the University of Balochistan, studied at Fort Leavenworth - where he wrote his thesis on mountain warfare - and at the Royal College of Defence Studies, and earned a PhD on US-Pakistan relations from the National Defence University; at the Pakistan Military Academy's 80th Long Course he won the Sword of Honour ^{1 2}. His birth year is not public ¹.

Commissioned into the 12th Baloch Regiment in 1989, Malik instructed at the Command and Staff College, Quetta, and the National Defence University, commanded an infantry brigade in Waziristan and the 41st Infantry Division in Balochistan, and served in the Military Operations Directorate ¹. Promoted lieutenant general in October 2021, he became the army's adjutant general, in which office he oversaw the investigation into the 9 May 2023 riots and the court martial of former ISI chief Faiz Hameed ¹. On 30 September 2024 he succeeded Nadeem Anjum as Director-General of the ISI - the first PhD holder in the post - and on 30 April 2025 he was given the additional charge of National Security Adviser, the first serving ISI chief to hold both; his ISI tenure was extended in October 2025 ^{1 2}. No text read for this record names a faith for Malik himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3}.

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