Claim: Lt. General Asif Ghafoor may be made the Director General (DG) of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Fact: General Ghafoor is not in fact being made DG ISI.
An Instagram account by the name of _.Markhor._ claimed in a recent post that General Ghafoor, the former Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) — the media and public relations wing of Pakistan’s armed forces — may be appointed as the new Director General of the ISI.
The Instagram user responsible for the post may have been misled by an article published by the website pakistanfrontier.com, content from which has also been shared by various Facebook pages, including here, here and here.
According to this notification issued by the ISPR on 6 October 2020, the most recent DG ISI, Lt. General Faiz Hameed, was transferred and posted as Corps Commander Peshawar, while this notification, issued on the same day, announced the appointment of Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad Anjum as the new DG ISI.
The appointment of General Anjum as DG ISI has been delayed because Prime Minister Imran Khan has not yet approved the ISPR notification. However, no civil or military official has mentioned Lt. General Asif Ghafoor as a possible nominee for the post.
Conclusion: The Instagram post is false. Lt. General Asif Ghafoor is serving as Inspector General Communication & Information Technology within the army and is not being made Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence.