Lt. Gen. (R) Asad Durrani joined the
Pakistan Army in 1959. During his military career he was instructor at the Military Academy
and the Command & Staff
College. In 1988 he was
appointed Director General of the Military Intelligence (MI) and in 1990, head
of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). His last two assignments were
Inspector General of Training and Evaluation at the Army Headquarters, and
Commandant of the National
Defence College (now a University). He retired in 1993. He is a graduate of the German General Staff
Academy, and was later Defence Attaché
in Germany.
After leaving the Army he was Pakistan's
Ambassador to Germany
(1994-1997) and Saudi Arabia
(2000-2002).