Rizwan Akhtar

Lt. Gen. Rizwan Akhtar
رضوان اختر
National Defence University, Islamabad President
In office 11 December 2016 – Present
Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence
In office 7 November 2014 – 11 December 2016
President	Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister	Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Zaheer-ul-Islam
Succeeded by	Naveed Mukhtar
Military service
Nickname(s)	Spy Master
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands	President National Defence University, Islamabad DG ISI DG Rangers Sindh

Lieutenant-General Rizwan Akhtar in (Urdu: رضوان اختر‎) is the three-star rank Pakistan Army general. Currently president of the National Defence University in Islamabad, he is a former spymaster who served as Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He took office on 8 November 2014.

Lt. Gen Rizwan was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in the Frontier Force Regiment in September 1982. He commanded an infantry brigade and infantry division in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) after served as Operation and Planning Officer at Peshawar Corps. 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. After getting promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in September 2014, he was posted as Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence. Presently he is President National Defense University.

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.

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