General hameed gul about reham khan biography

Pakistani general (1936–2015)

Hamid Gul^[a] (20 November 1936 – 15 August 2015) was a Pakistani former three-star general and defence analyst.

Gul was notable for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, between 1987 and 1989. During his tenure, Gul played an instrumental role in directing ISI support to Afghan resistance groups against Soviet forces in return for funds and weapons from the US, during the Soviet–Afghan War, in co-operation with the CIA.^[5]

In addition, Gul was widely credited for expanding covert support to Kashmiri freedom fighters.^[6] against neighbouring rival India in the disputed Kashmir region from 1989,^[7] Gul earned a reputation as a "Godfather" of Pakistani geostrategic policies.^[8][9] For his role against India, he has been considered by A.

S. Dulat, former director of RAW, as "the most dangerous and infamous