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World News // 9 years ago

Taliban split over war with Pakistan

Following months of disagreement, several Taliban commanders have split away and formed their own group in the wake of a Pakistani Army offensive.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Pakistan's former ISI chief Hamid Gul accused of terrorist links

Charges that former Pakistani ISI chief Hamid Gul had terrorist links have appeared in the Indian press.

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 1 decade ago

Commentary: Road to nowhere

The U.S. has lost the media war in Pakistan. Popular talk show hosts have already made up their minds that America is preparing a war against their country.

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 1 decade ago

Commentary: Pakistan inferno

U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Karzai reached a rough understanding on how to wind down the longest war in U.S. history, the agreement didn't include the key ingredient -- Pakistan.

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 1 decade ago

Commentary: Pakistan's heavyweights

A.Q. Khan, Pakistan's hero who sold nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions.

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 1 decade ago

Commentary: Pakistani nuclear hero villain

Pakistan’s nuclear black marketer Abdul Qadeer Khan, a self-declared enemy of the U.S., is back in business – or at least center stage basking in the limelight.

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 1 decade ago

Commentary: Afghanistan as an ally

Afghanistan, listed among the five most corrupt countries in the world, has been determined to be a “major non-NATO ally” of the United States. Go figure.

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 1 decade ago

Commentary: Topsy-turvy alliance

The mojo at either end of the U.S.-Pakistan strategic relationship is hard to decipher but it holds the key to ending the 10-year war in Afghanistan.

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 1 decade ago

UPI interview with Hamid Gul

After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, UPI's Arnaud de Borchgrave had an exclusive interview with former Pakistani Gen. Hamid Gul. In light of the role Gul is given in the recently released secret U.S. military documents, UPI republishes de Borchgrave's interview with Gul. The item was originally published Sept. 26, 2001.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

U.S. urged to talk to Taliban leader

The United States should talk face to face with the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan if it wants to bring about peace, a former Pakistani general says.

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It was a targeted killing, and just like like Hamas, Israel is getting rid of every key individual of the Islamic world, especially in Pakistan
Pakistani religious leader gunned down May 31, 2004

The best situation would be to talk to Mullah Omar
U.S. urged to talk to Taliban leader Mar 12, 2010

The operation to kill bin Laden was not something new. It is quite unfortunate that we have permitted the United States to establish its bases and freely operate its forces in Pakistan
Kayani holds conference of commanders May 05, 2011

Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, HI(M), SBt, (Urdū:حمید گل) (born 20 November 1936) is a retired Pakistani Army three star general known for heading the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier Pakistani intelligence agency, after the Soviet-Afghan War, and for supporting the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir against India in 1989 with the support of the militants, who fought in the Soviet-Afghan war.

Hamid Gul served as the director general of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence during 1987-89, mainly in the time when Benazir Bhutto was Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was instrumental in the anti-Soviet support of the mujahideen in the Afghanistan War of 1979–89, a pivotal time during the Cold War, and in establishing the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad, a right-wing political party against the Pakistan Peoples Party. He also was a vehement supporter of the Kashmiri insurgency against India, and is accused by the United States of having ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Hamid Gul was born on 20 November 1936 to Muhammad Khan, an ethnic Bhati Rajput, in the Sargodha District of Punjab in what was then British India but now Pakistan. He got his early education from a school in his village. He briefly got admission in Government College Lahore, before reporting to Pakistan Military Academy Kakul.

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