General (Retd) Hamid Gul, who had served as the chief of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), died of a brain haemorrhage late Saturday, according to a DawnNews report. In March 1987, upon General Zia’s nomination, Gul succeeded General Akhtar Abdur Rehman to be Pakistan’s next Chief of ISI until his replacement by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in May 1989.
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Hamid Gul also was written as Hameed Gul was a senior leader of Pakistan and suffering from High Blood Pressure, Earlier in the day, Lt Gen Gul was shifted from a hospital in Murree to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Rawalpindi after his health condition worsened.
Born on 20 November 1936, the three-star general joined the Pakistan Army in October 1956.
During the 1965 Indo-Pak war, Mr Gul was a tank commander. General Gul attended the Command and Staff College Quetta in 1968-69.
Gul had been strongly criticised for his role as head of the ISI during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Though Gul worked closely with the Central Intelligence Agency during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, he turned anti-American when Washington failed to deliver on promised aid after the war and became a strong backer of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
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He turned against the restored chief justice after a bench allowed Musharraf to contest the elections in uniform.
