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Rizwan Akhtar appointed as Pakistan's ISI chief

| | Sep 23, 2014, at 06:01 am
Islamabad, Sept 22 (IBNS) Rizwan Akhtar has been appointed as the new Director General of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), officials said on Monday.

"Major General Rizwan Akhtar. He has been appointed DG ISI. He will assume the charge of his new appointment on 8th November,"  Pakistan's Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

Rizwan was commissioned in Army in Frontier Force Regiment in September 1982.

"He is graduate of Command and Staff College Quetta, NDU Islamabad, War Course USA. He has commanded an Infantry Brigade and Division in FATA and also remained DG Rangers Sindh," read the statement.

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