{"id":2497,"date":"2019-06-22T02:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2019-07-07T06:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T06:24:22","slug":"lieutenant-general-faiz-hameed-is-appointed-as-pakistans-director-general-of-inter-services-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/lieutenant-general-faiz-hameed-is-appointed-as-pakistans-director-general-of-inter-services-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed is appointed as Pakistans Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed as<strong>\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (DG-ISI),<\/strong>\u00a0a powerful spy agency. He assumed his office on<strong>\u00a017th June 2019<\/strong>.The Pakistan Army also announced a number of changes to postings of its top generals.<br> Lt. Gen. Hameed was appointed as Director-General of the ISI in place of<strong>\u00a0Lieutenant General Asim Munir.<\/strong>\u00a0Munir was transferred and appointed as Corps Commander Gujranwala. Lt. Gen. Munir was appointed as ISI chief in October 2018 after the retirement of his predecessor Lt. Gen. Naveed Mukhtar.<br><br><strong>Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed:<\/strong><br> Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed is a<strong>\u00a0three-star rank general\u00a0<\/strong>in the Pakistan Army. He is currently the <strong>24th\u00a0<\/strong>Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence (DG-ISI).<br> On April 12, the Pakistan Army promoted then Major General Hameed to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed him Adjutant General at the General Headquarters (GHQ) later that month.<br> He was previously serving as the head of the Counter Intelligence wing in the ISI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed\u00a0has been appointed as\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (DG-ISI),\u00a0a powerful spy agency. He assumed his office on\u00a017th June 2019.The Pakistan Army also announced a number of changes to postings of its top generals. Lt. Gen. Hameed was appointed as Director-General of the ISI in place of\u00a0Lieutenant General Asim Munir.\u00a0Munir was transferred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}