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It is interesting that a soldier who served 36 years in his country's army should be remembered for just two of these. Such is the mystique of Lt General Hamid Gul, the malevolent Pakistani spymaster who died of a cerebral stroke on Saturday. He had an interesting life before his two years at the head of the ISI (1987-89) and after, when he chose to retire voluntarily from the army, unable to stomach his sidelining to what he described as a menial job, to head the "ordnance factory complex" at Taxila. Gul joined his army in 1956, as a cavalryman,...

Former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt General (retd) Hamid Gul passed away in Murree on Saturday evening due to brain haemorrhage, Express News reported. According to his daughter, Uzma Gul, the former spy master had been taken to the Combined Military hospital in Murree on Saturday after he suffered brain haemorrhage.

General Hamid Gol Reveals US Plots to Disrupt Pakistan's N. Program TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Director of Pakistan's Military Intelligence Organization General Hamid Gol disclosed that the US has hatched a plot to disrupt his country's nuclear program by arresting Islamabad's nuclear scientists. "The US, on behalf of Israel, opposed Pakistan's nuclear program from the very first day and seeks to make the country's nuclear program unsteady through hatching plots," General Hamid Gol told FNA on Tuesday. Noting that the documents released by the whistleblower site of WikiLeaks also prove that the US has always sought to impede Pakistan's nuclear program,...

Excerpt - Islamabad, 14 Jan. (AKI) - (by Marco Liconti) - Pakistan is on the brink of revolution and President Pervez Musharraf must be immediately replaced, says the former head of the country's intelligence agency ISI, Lt. Gen Hamid Gul. In an exclusive interview with Adnkronos International (AKI) Gul said the political situation had deteriorated recently and the views of the country's 170 million people had been disregarded. "I think things are getting out of control of the government," Gul told AKI. " I think there has to be a policy change." Gul said the president had to be replaced...

ISLAMABAD: The police on Sunday arrested Hamid Gul, an outspoken former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's premier spy agency, during a small public gathering. “I am going to break a news that Former ISI chief Lt General (Retd) Hamid Gul has been arrested,” said, the senior analyst of Geo Television Network Dr. Shahid Masood. "It is not an emergency, it's martial law. One man has put the country at stake to save his rule," Gul said before he was pushed into a police van and whisked off.

<p>A plot is being organized to replace Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf with the nuclear engineer who sold the country's secrets to America's self-avowed enemies, according to one of the political and religious leaders involved.</p> <p>Details of the plan were discussed at a meeting in late February in Akora Khattak, near Peshawar, following the death of the wife of Sen. Sami ul-Haq, vice president of a coalition of six religious parties known as the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), said a politician who attended the meeting.</p>