Lieutenant General Muhammad Asim Malik – the head of Pakistan’s spy agency, is the country’s new National Security Adviser. This is the first time that a serving chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence has been simultaneously appointed as the NSA. The ISI chief is the second-most powerful person in Pakistan’s military after the Chief of Army Staff. Malik’s dual role comes amid increased tensions between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. n18oc_world n18oc_crux
