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