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Ex-ISI Chief Hamid Gul Tied to Militants, Dies
Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who strongly backed the Taliban, has died of a brain haemorrhage on Saturday in a hospital in Islamabad.
Gen. Gul served as the head of the Pakistan’s ISI agency from 1987 to 1989.
He was an extremist and a strong backer of the Taliban, Gul was known for his hard-line Islamist views against the US and India. Critics say he had a theory of conspiracy who once in a BBC interview in 2010 said: “America is history, Karzai is history, the Taliban are the future.”
Afghan experts say Gul was the main cause of internal war in Afghanistan who then became a strong backer of the Taliban regime.
“Hamid Gul is responsible for all cruel massacres in Afghanistan, Afghans will not forgive him, and if Afghans could find his dead body they should eliminate him,” General Attiqullah Amarkhail, an Afghan military expert said.
Gul was retired in 1992, but he was backing Taliban till the end.
“Hamid Gul had a key role in devastation and internal wars in Afghanistan, he also had a key role in the creation of terrorist groups including Taliban leadership, I hope Afghans relief with the death of Hameed Gul,” Ahmad Sayedi a former Afghan diplomat in Pakistan stated.
A large number of Afghans expressed their gratitude for the death of Gul in social networks and called him the main cause of miseries in Afghanistan because Afghans believe he was the one who produced violence and terror.
Reported by: Hameed Sediqi
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Girls’ education is a ‘vital issue’ for Afghanistan: Karzai
Former president Hamid Karzai said in a meeting with Iran’s ambassador and special representative, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, that education of girls was a “vital issue” for Afghanistan.
Karzai said he appreciated Iran’s cooperation and its standing with the Afghan people, especially Iran’s contributions to education in Afghanistan.
During the meeting, Karzai said peace and stability in the region are in the interest of all regional countries.
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Uzbekistan’s humanitarian aid arrives in Balkh
A shipment of humanitarian aid from Uzbekistan was handed over on Thursday to the local officials of Balkh province in the trade port of Hairatan.
Local authorities said the aid, which includes flour, oil, wheat, sugar and meat, has been handed over by Uzbekistan’s Surkhandarya governor to the governor of Balkh.
The governor of Surkhandarya stated the purpose of sending this aid was to support the people of Afghanistan and stressed the need for the development of good relations between the two countries.
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Afghanistan’s problems caused more damage to Pakistan than 3 wars with India: Durrani
Islamabad’s special envoy for Afghanistan Asif Durrani said on Wednesday that Pakistan has suffered more due to Afghanistan’s internal situation than Pakistan has suffered in three wars with India in terms of blood spilt and finances drained.
Durrani said at a one-day International Conference titled “Pakistan in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape”, which was organized by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) and the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), that over 80,000 Pakistanis died in the two decades of the War on Terror and that his country was still counting its dead and injured.
“After the withdrawal of NATO forces, it was hoped that peace in Afghanistan would bring peace to the region. However, such expectations were short-lived,” he said.
He also stated that attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group on Pakistan’s border areas increased by 65 percent, while suicide attacks increased by 500 percent.
“The TTP’s enhanced attacks on Pakistan while using Afghan soil have been a serious concern for Pakistan. Another worrying aspect is the participation of Afghan nationals in these attacks,” he said.
Durrani also said Pakistan had suffered geopolitically since the Soviet Union invaded the neighboring country.
“The post-9/11 world order has negatively impacted Pakistan. Apart from losing 80,000 citizens’ lives, including 8,000 law enforcement agency personnel, the country’s economic opportunity cost is estimated at $150 billion,” Durrani said.
Talking about the future outlook for Pakistan in the regional context, Durrani said that while “our eastern neighbor is likely to continue with its anti-Pakistan pursuits, the western border poses an avoidable irritant in the short to medium term.”
However, he said Pakistan can overcome its difficulties with Afghanistan, including the TTP challenge.
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