Hamid Gul, Father Of The Taliban, Dies Of Brain Hemorrhage

Pakistan’s Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul passes away, Hamid Gul was famous for his controversial statements on India and Indian Prime Minister.

Gul headed Pakistan’s premier spy agency – the ISI – from 1987 to 1989, he was replaced as DG ISI by the then PM Benazir Bhutto. The former Pakistani military man died in Murree on Saturday, August 15, due to brain haemorrhage.

Gul was born November. 20, 1936, to a family originally from Swat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, that eventually settled in Sargodha. He briefly got admission in Government College Lahore, before joining Pakistan army in October 1956 with the 18th PMA Long Course. During the 1965 war he was a tank commander and was awarded Sitara-i-Jurat for bravery. During 1972-1976, Gul served under General Ziaul Haq as a battalion commander, and then as staff colonel, when Zia was GOC, 1st Armoured Division and Commander, II Corps at Multan. General Gul became dissatisfied with United States’ (US) treatment of Afghanistan after the end to the Soviet war saying the US had failed to fulfill its promise of establishing a prosperous Afghanistan after the war. Gul was blamed for planning and executing an operation to capture Jalalabad from the Afghan army in the spring of 1989.