In October 2004 , Lieutenant-General Ashfaq Kayani was appointed as the director general of Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence ( '' ISI '' ) , in place of General Ehsan-ul-Haq , who was promoted as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee . General Kayani directed the ISI operations and her operatives during a bleak period , with widely spread insurgencies in North-West Pakistan and Balochistan , disclosing of the nuclear proliferation case , and waves of suicide attacks throughout Pakistan emanating from the northwestern tribal belt . In his final days at the '' ISI '' , he also led the talks with Benazir Bhutto for a possible power sharing deal with Musharraf . In October 2007 , after three years , he was replaced at the ISI by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj
waves of suicide attacks throughout Pakistan
List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani