Inter-Services Intelligence
Military intelligence service of Pakistan
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| May 17 2025 | Additional details emerged about the espionage case involving Mohammad Ehsan Ur Rahim following the arrest of Indian YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was allegedly involved in intelligence activities with Rahim during the brief India-Pakistan conflict. |
| May 13 2025 | India declared Mohammad Ehsan Ur Rahim persona non grata and expelled him from the country for engaging in activities inconsistent with his diplomatic status, specifically espionage-related conduct. |
| September 30 2024 | Lt. General Asim Malik appointed as the current Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence service. |
| September 29 2024 | Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum is set to conclude his term as ISI Director-General |
| February 4 2024 | Satendra Siwal, an employee at the Indian embassy in Moscow, was arrested in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, on espionage charges for allegedly providing classified military information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in exchange for financial incentives. |
| 2023 | Labhshankar Duryodhan Maheshwari, a 53-year-old man of Pakistani origin residing in India, was arrested on charges of espionage for allegedly assisting Pakistani agents in obtaining an Indian SIM card to hack mobile phones of children of Indian defense personnel. |
| 2023 | Mohammad Ehsan Ur Rahim, a Pakistan High Commission staff member, reportedly established initial contact with Indian YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra and began cultivating her as a potential intelligence asset. |
| 2023 | Qatar's State Security arrested eight former Indian Navy officials allegedly spying on Qatar's stealth submarine programme, with ISI reportedly providing crucial intelligence that helped uncover the spy network. |
| 2021 | MI5 and Metropolitan Police discovered an ISI plan to assassinate Pakistan-origin Baloch and Pashtun activists residing in the United Kingdom. |
| 2021 | Iranian Ministry of Intelligence (VAJA) adopted ISI's operational model to suppress internal dissent, aiming to promote similar disciplinary approaches in confronting internal threats. |
| 2021 | Fall of Kabul viewed as a major strategic victory for ISI, with the organization mediating talks between Taliban factions and ensuring the Haqqani Network secured a significant role in the Taliban's Cabinet of Afghanistan. |
| November 19 2021 | Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed concludes his term as ISI Director General, being succeeded by Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum on 20 November 2021. |
| October 2021 | The appointment of the ISI chief causes significant market reaction, with shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange dropping 1.51% in the KSE-100 index due to concerns about the leadership appointment. |
| October 13 2021 | Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry informed media about the ongoing process of appointing a new ISI director general, emphasizing it was the Prime Minister's prerogative and that the army chief and prime minister agreed to follow constitutional procedures. |
| October 6 2021 | The Pakistan military's media affairs wing announced the replacement of Faiz Hameed with Nadeem Anjum as ISI director general. |
| June 2021 | ISI allegedly planned a conspiracy to murder Ahmad Waqass Goraya, a Pakistani Human Rights activist living in exile in Netherlands, as uncovered by MI5 and Metropolitan Police. |
| June 24 2021 | The National Intelligence Coordination Committee held its inaugural session, becoming fully functional. |
| November 2020 | The National Intelligence Coordination Committee (NICC) was approved by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, with the ISI Director-General heading the committee. |
| 2019 | The British government-funded Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) published a report concluding there was no evidence of Pakistan supporting the pro-Khalistan movement, contradicting the earlier Indian intelligence allegations. |
| 2019 | Ayman al-Zawahari released a video message labeling ISI and the Pakistani military as a 'puppet' of the United States. |
| June 16 2019 | Lieutenant General Asim Munir concludes his short tenure as ISI Director-General |
| October 25 2018 | Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar's term ends, and Lieutenant General Asim Munir becomes the ISI Director-General |
| 2017 | General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, publicly accused the ISI of having connections to terrorist groups during a Senate hearing. |
| 2017 | After ISIS's defeat in Mosul, Iraqi envoy Ali Yasin Muhammad Karim publicly praised Pakistan's ISI for intelligence cooperation during the fight against ISIS, expressing interest in continuing bilateral intelligence sharing. |
| April 29 2017 | The ISI director general tweeted that the notification on the Dawn news leak was incomplete and not in line with the Inquiry Board's recommendations, which was subsequently rejected. |
| 2016 | Uzair Baloch, a Lyari Gang War gangster with Iranian nationality, was arrested by Sindh Rangers. During his confession, he revealed that Iranian intelligence officials offered him residence in Tehran in exchange for sensitive information about Pakistan Army operations in Karachi. |
| December 11 2016 | Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar becomes ISI Director-General on 7 November 2014 and serves until 11 December 2016. |
| December 11 2016 | Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar concludes his tenure, and Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar becomes the new ISI Director-General |
| October 6 2016 | Dawn newspaper published a report about a government meeting detailing international pressure to crack down on extremist groups in Pakistan, which led to significant controversy. |
| March 26 2016 | Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti announced the arrest of Indian Naval officer Kulbhushan Yadav by the ISI in Balochistan. |
| 2014 | Indian intelligence alleged that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) supported pro-Khalistan movement activists based in the United Kingdom by organizing a training course for them in Mae Sot, Thailand. |
| November 7 2014 | Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam's term as ISI Director-General ends |
| November 5 2014 | Lieutenant-General Joseph Anderson publicly stated that the Haqqani network is 'fractured' due to Pakistan's military operations in North Waziristan, which disrupted their ability to conduct attacks in Afghanistan. |
| February 2014 | ISI quickly obtained information about Indian Army chief General Bikram Singh's orders to deploy troops along Pakistan borders, prompting a rapid counterdeployment by the Pakistan Army. |
| July 24 2013 | Five suicide bombers attacked the local ISI office in Sukkur, killing four people (including ISI officials) and injuring 35. |
| 2012 | Leaked Stratfor emails suggested that up to 12 ISI officials knew Osama bin Laden's location during the Abbottabad raid, and that bin Laden had been in regular contact with ISI. |
| March 2012 | Political Internal Division became inactive with the appointment of a new director general who took operational charge of the ISI. |
| March 19 2012 | Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam becomes ISI Director-General, serving from 19 March 2012 to 7 November 2014. |
| March 18 2012 | Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha concludes his tenure as ISI Director-General |
| 2011 | Admiral Mike Mullen publicly described the Haqqani network as a 'veritable arm of Pakistan's ISI', accusing the intelligence agency of directly planning and supporting attacks on U.S. targets in Afghanistan. |
| 2011 | Pakistani ISI was reported to be operating Kashmir-centric lobbying groups in London, including The Justice Foundation and World Kashmir Freedom Movement, aimed at influencing government positions on the Kashmir conflict. |
| 2011 | ISI initiated training programs for the State Police of Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan State Intelligence Service in intelligence gathering techniques. |
| 2011 | ISI arrested five CIA informants who had provided intelligence leading to Osama bin Laden's death, including Shakil Afridi, who was sentenced to 33 years in prison for running a fake vaccination campaign that helped locate bin Laden's compound. |
| 2011 | Following the Raymond Davis shooting incident, ISI disrupted CIA operations in Pakistan, leading to at least 30 suspected American covert operatives suspending activities and 12 leaving the country. |
| 2011 | FBI openly acknowledges in US Court that ISI sponsors and oversees the insurgency in Kashmir by arming separatist militant groups. |
| 2011 | Xun Wang, a Chinese woman believed to be an ISI agent, was indicted for illegally exporting high-performance epoxy coatings to the Chashma 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan via a third-party distributor. |
| December 2011 | A Jamestown Foundation analysis report was published, discussing allegations about the ISI's involvement with high-profile terrorism figures. |
| September 14 2011 | Three intelligence officials were killed and one wounded when a vehicle carrying agency personnel was ambushed in FR Bannu. |
| June 28 2011 | Haqqani network conducted an attack on the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, which U.S. officials alleged was planned with ISI support. |
| March 8 2011 | A car bomb exploded at a CNG Station in Faisalabad, killing 25 people and injuring over 100. The Taliban claimed the nearby ISI office was the target, though no ISI personnel were killed. |
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