Pak appoints head of ISI as new NSA

India, May 2 -- Pakistan has appointed serving ISI chief Lt Gen Muhammad Asim Malik as the new National Security Adviser (NSA) amid raging tension with India. Lt Gen Malik, currently serving as director general of Inter-Services Intelligence ISI, will hold the additional charge of the NSA. He is the country's tenth NSA, but it is for the first time that a serving ISI chief has been given the task to serve concurrently in the two key positions.P13

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