Pakistan names Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar as new ISI chief
Weeks after replacing its Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan on Sunday named Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar as the new chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He would be replacing the outgoing chief Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar. According to reports, Mukhtar had previously headed ISI's counter-terrorism wing in Islamabad and recently served as the corps commander of Karachi.