Lt Gen Muhammad Asim Malik will take over as the new chief of Pakistan’s infamous Inter-Services Intelligence from September 30. He will replace former Prime Minister Imran Khan's appointee, Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum. Pakistan army said in a release that the new ISI director general previously served in the Balochistan Infantry Division and commandeered the brigade in Pakistan's northwestern Waziristan tribal district. Malik is a graduate of Fort Leavenworth in the US and the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. Malik will take over at a time when Pakistan is facing a surge of terror attacks in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southwestern Balochistan provinces.