Rizwan Akhtar

Lt. Gen. Rizwan Akhtar رضوان اختر
Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 November 2014
President	Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister	Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Zaheer-ul-Islam
Military service
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands	DG ISI Commander V Corps

Lieutenant-General Rizwan Akhtar in (Urdu language: رضوان اختر‎ ) is the current Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He was appointed for the position on 22 September 2014. He took office on 8 November 2014

Military career

Rizwan was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in Frontier Force Regiment in September 1982. He is from the Frontier Force Regiment and commanded the infantry brigade and infantry division in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). Previously as Sindh DG Rangers, Major General Rizwan Akhtar had been assigned with the task to lead the Karachi operation. Akhtar is also considered to have extensive experience of counterinsurgency from a previous posting in the border region of South Waziristan.

Academic career

Rizwan Akhtar is a graduate of the Command and Staff College in Quetta, National Defense University, Islamabad (NDU) and United States Army War College, Pennsylvania, USA. At the US Army War College, Akhtar authored a strategy research project report titled ‘US-Pakistan trust deficit and the war on terror’ in fulfillment of the requirements of the Master in Strategic Studies Degree.