Ahmad Shuja Pasha

Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha HI(M)
احمد شجاع پاشا
Ahmed Shuja Pasha in 2008
Director General of the ISI
In office October 2008 – March 2012
Preceded by	Nadeem Taj
Succeeded by	Zaheerul Islam
Director General of Military Operations at GHQ
In office April 2006 – October 2008
Commandant Command and Staff College Quetta
In office April 2005 – April 2006
General Officer Commanding 8th Infantry Division,Sialkot
In office January 2003 – April 2005
Contingent and Sector Commander United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
In office 2001–2002
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-18) 18 March 1952 (age 72) Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan
Nickname	General Pasha
Military service
Allegiance	Pakistan
Branch/service	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1974–2012
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Frontier Force Regiment
Commands	8th Infantry Division Sialkot Command and Staff College DG Military Operations United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
Battles/wars	Sierra Leone Civil War War in North-West Pakistan
Awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz

Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha (Urdu: احمد شجاع پاشا), HI(M) (born 18 March 1952) is a retired three-star rank army general of the Pakistan Army. He was the director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the main intelligence service of Pakistan from October 2008 until March 2012.^[1] He was due to reach the age of superannuation on 18 March 2011 but received an extension of one year,^[2] and retired in March 2012.^[3] Pasha was replaced by Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam.^[4] In 2011, Pasha was named as one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine.^[5][6]

General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, emerged as fiercely hostile to Washington in his final year engaging in "shouting matches" with then CIA Director Leon Panetta, cutting cooperation down to a minimum and ordering the harassment of U.S. diplomats in Pakistan.