Faiz Hameed

“DON'T WORRY, EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY”

 Table of Contents
•Introduction
•Personal Life
•Charge as ISI Chief
•Positions held in ISI
•Not so Average Ambitions
•Political Manipulation
•Criticism
•Relationship with Army Chief
•Prediction About Him
•Visit To Kabul
Introduction
•Three-star ranking general in Pakistan Army
•Commissioned in Baloch regiment
•24th Director-General of (ISI)
•Adjutant General at (GHQ)
•Head of the counter intelligence wing of the ISI
•Commander XI Corps Peshawar since 2021
Personal Life
•Born in a Punjabi family
•Hometown is village of Latifal in Punjab
•General Officer Commanding of 16 infantry division
•Girdawar Najaf Hameed Khan (brother)
Charge as ISI Chief
•Taken over as the ISI chief on 16 June 2019 in a surprise military shake-up
•He had replaced Lt Gen. Asim Munir
•Previously served in the ISI as the head of the powerful internal security wing
•He was promoted as Lt Gen in April 2019
Positions held in ISI
•Head of the Counter Intelligence Wing
•Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
•24th Director-General of ISI.
Not so Average Ambitions
•A man with above average personal ambitions
•He remains in the run for the position of the army chief in the future
•He was included as a member in National Development Council.
Political Manipulation
•His greater worth lies in domestic political manipulation
•The role he played in building the 2017 protest of the (TLP)
•As the head of ISI, he ensured that PTI survives
•Managed the political influence of the opposition parties well
Criticism
•When banned TLP workers staged a sit-in at Faizabad
•The agreement was signed by Faiz Hameed as a guarantor.
•Criticized by the opposition party PML-N.
•Maryam Nawaz alleged that General Faiz had ensured that a bench was formed which would
not grant bail to them
•Alleged that her case was framed and sentenced by General Faiz
Relationship with Army Chief
•His relationship with Army chief date back to the early to mid-2010s
•He was a brigadier and where Bajwa was the field commander officer
•Both Bajwa and Hameed belong to the Baluch regiment
•Subsequently, he was promoted as Major General and sent to 16th infantry division
Prediction About Him
•His appointment as Corps Commander
•One needs to have a tenure of the Corps Commander to become Army chief
•Really close to Army and the Prime Minister
•By the end of the year 2022
Visit to Kabul
•He arrived in Kabul leading a delegation of Pakistani officials
•First high-ranking foreign official to visit the Taliban-led Afghanistan
•Pakistan and its intelligence agency have been accused of supporting the Taliban in taking over
Afghanistan