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The News International (blog)
April 15, 2018
Mian Sharif wanted to concentrate on his business, but because of pressure and influence from Gen Jillani, he allowed his two sons to cooperate with the ... The two men, who played an important role in their political growth in the 1980s and 1990s, were former ISI chief General (retd) Hameed Gul andÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
April 14, 2018
In one of his interviews, Gen. Hamid Gul admitted that the military leadership got angry with Junejo over the Geneva Accord and decided to sack him. Nawaz Sharif, who after the 1985 elections was elected as chief minister of Punjab province for the first time, later backed the establishment in getting rid ofÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
April 3, 2018
When General Ziaul Haq imposed martial law on July 5, 1977 and announced elections in 90 days, he thought deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had lost popularity and would be defeated by ... Former ISI chief Lt Gen Hameed Gul (late) later admitted that he was wrong in his assessment about BB.
Newsweek Pakistan
March 29, 2018
The clueless inspector generals in our provinces have so far “explained” acts of terrorism through “foreign hand”; now they have a new peg to hang on incidents ... (One of the proudest possessions of late Gen Hamid Gul was a piece of the Berlin Wall, presented to him by the people of the city in gratitude forÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 29, 2018
The PPP became a reality because of ideological brains like JA Rahim, party's first secretary-general who gave the concept of 'socialism is our economy' ... Nawaz Sharif's political birth was an outcome of Zia's anti-PPP political narrative and former ISI chiefs like Gen Hamid Gul used him for years for theirÃâà...
Daily Times
March 7, 2018
But the then ISI Chief General Hamid Gul according to his own public admission did put together the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (or IJI) in September ... politicians including many of those belonging to the PMLN and Jamat-i-Islami in 1990 'on the instructions of the then army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg and lateÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 4, 2018
If today there are 70,000 Burmese Rohingya in Karachi, led politically by late General Hamid Gul's son Abdullah Gul, it is because of what General Nasir ... The Corps Commander X Corps, Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed and General Musharraf signed off on the plan and got the prime minister involved in the ideaÃâà...
Pakistan Observer
August 16, 2017
The participation of thousands of youth proves that there are hundreds of thousand ideological sons of Hameed Gul are around the world. TJP is struggling for a soft revolution. The youth will not allow anyone to raise pressure on honorable judiciary and its independence. Today, this function aims to convey the message toÃâà...
The Hindu
August 27, 2015
Sometime later, he also died in mysterious circumstances. After Gen. Zia's death, a civilian government took office in Pakistan. Gen. Hamid Gul was removed from the post of Director General of ISI. When the Indian authorities made efforts to pick up the threads of the covert operation, they were told that noÃâà...
Huffington Post
August 26, 2015
Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul passed away over a week ago. He was perhaps the most vocal Pakistani jihadist general after his former boss, General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, with whom he shared his Islamist zealotry and now the month of death. Both were equally verbose and fanatical, but General Gul's boisterous bravadoÃâà...
The Independent
August 18, 2015
Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul: General Zia-ul-Haq's spymaster who was dismissed by Benazir Bhutto and later accused of supporting terrorism ... “We never quite knew whether Lt Gen Gul had the full backing of the government or not,” said India's former Intelligence Bureau special director and expert onÃâà...
Aljazeera.com (blog)
August 17, 2015
In the passing of retired Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, the division and fissures in deeply polarised Pakistan were exposed again as vehemently divergent views greeted the news that the once-feared, 79-year-old former spy master has died on Saturday night. There was no ambiguity about what the lateÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 17, 2015
General Hamid Gul Photo: AFP. Hamid Gul was born in Sargodha, in Punjab Province, on November 20 1936 and was commissioned in the Armoured Corps of the Pakistan Army in 1958. During the 1965 war with India, he served as a tank commander and was decorated for bravery. From 1972 to 1976 heÃâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan
August 16, 2015
RAWALPINDI: (Dunya News) – Funeral prayer of former Director General (DG) Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. (r) Hamid Gul has on Sunday been offered. Important personalities including Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif also attended the funeral prayer, reported Dunya News.
BBC News
August 15, 2015
A former chief of Pakistan's powerful military intelligence, Hamid Gul, has died at the age of 79. General Gul led the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1987 to 1989. One of the most outspoken military leaders of his generation in Pakistan, Gen Gul was known for his hardline Islamist views against the USÃâà...
