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Posts Tagged ‘General Hamid Gul’

When drug mafia entered the Parliament: Nawaz Sharif’s narcotics connections—by Shiraz Paracha


When drug mafia entered the Parliament: Nawaz Sharif’s narcotics connections—by Shiraz Paracha

In the 1990 elections Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif knowing or unknowingly awarded party tickets to people who were associated with drug mafia. As result some drug traffickers entered Pakistan’s national and provincial assemblies. Mr. Sharif not only introduced horse-trading in 1989, he also brought drug mafia to politics. In 1989, Mothermma [...]

On extensions – By Ali Aftab Saeed, Pakistan Today


On extensions – By Ali Aftab Saeed, Pakistan Today

In Pakistan, old soldiers just don’t fade away Source: Pakistan Today Haroon-ur-Rasheed recently in a newspaper article fantasised about Imran Khan’s great relationship with General Kayani after becoming Prime Minister in 2013. According to Hamid Mir, when asked about this, Imran’s comments on Kayani were unpublishable (for reasons [...]

JuD says Gen Hamid Gul was wrong in denying Malik Ishaq’s presence at Difa-e-Pakistan rally


JuD says Gen Hamid Gul was wrong in denying Malik Ishaq’s presence at Difa-e-Pakistan rally

Related post: The banned outfit and General Hameed Gul’s Lies Chief of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Malik Ishaq was in attendance at the Difa-e-Pakistan Council rally in Multan, a spokesperson for the council’s member organisation Jamaatud Dawa has said. “General (retd) Hamid Gul (more...)

Wajahat Khan facing death threats after exposing Hamid Gul’s lies about Malik Ishaq and Difa-e-Pakistan


Wajahat Khan facing death threats after exposing Hamid Gul’s lies about Malik Ishaq and Difa-e-Pakistan

Related posts: Pakistan army outsources the Defence of Pakistan to killers of Shias, Ahmadis and Christians JuD contradicts General Hamid Gul's statement Pakistan is a dangerous country where independent journalists are exposed to terrible dangers, including being killed not only by terrorists groups but also by security intelligence [...]

The banned outfit and General Hameed Gul’s Lies


The banned outfit and General Hameed Gul’s Lies

The banned outfit By Rafia Zakaria IT has been a decade of bans and lists. As the world of terror revealed itself to be more and more amorphous, nation states have fought back collecting the names, identifying the leaders and eliminating the followers of terror groups. There are lists of banned organisations in Pakistan and lists of [...]

What do Pakistan’s Shia Muslims think about Imran Khan? – by Laibaah


What do Pakistan’s Shia Muslims think about Imran Khan? – by Laibaah

Source: Pakistan Blogzine A Shia Muslim scholar Allama Jawad Naqvi exposes the Saudi-ISI plan to revive a repackaged version of General Zia-ul-Haq Group (Religio-political fascists) in Pakistan In this post, we present a thought provoking analysis by a Shia scholar on the re-emergence of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) with the [...]

Imran Khan’s message to the Defence of Pakistan rally in Lahore – by Hakim Hazik


Imran Khan’s message to the Defence of Pakistan rally in Lahore – by Hakim Hazik

On behalf of the ISI, we welcome you to the biggest jalsa since the Pakistan Resolution was passed. This conference is fully supported by the Armed Forces of Pakistan, including Anjuman e Sipah e Sahaba, Lashkar e Taiba and 313 Brigade. The people you see here today were totally opposed to the Pakistan Resolution but fully supportive of the [...]

Imran Khan’s concert-type dharna -by Zalaan


Imran Khan’s concert-type dharna -by Zalaan

عمران خان کا کنسرٹ نما دھرنا اور مشترکہ اعلامیہ عمران خان کے کنسرٹ نما دھرنے کے آخر میں تمام مذہبی جماعتوں ،طالبان ، چلڈرن آف ضیاء اسوسیشن پاکستان فور مودودی اور میڈیا میں شامل [...]

Pakistan: ISI rigged elections -by Inam R Sehri


Pakistan: ISI rigged elections -by Inam R Sehri

On 2nd May 2011 evening, PPP ultimately joined hands with PML(Q) and offered them 18 slots in executive allocating them different assignments, mostly carrying ministreal perks. The young generation knows them little from days of Gen Musharraf when they remained in shared power with a military ruler but more after assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto [...]

Raymond Davis sahib aur qiblah Hamid Gul – by Danial Lakhnavi


Raymond Davis sahib aur qiblah Hamid Gul – by Danial Lakhnavi

کل رات اپنے ناسٹلجیا کے تحت امجد خان مرحوم، آنجہانی سنجیو کمار، دھر میندر اور امیتابھ جی کی شاہکار فلم "شعلے" دیکھ رہا تھا، اس دوران بارہا نیوز چینل بھی دیکھتا رھتا جس میں ریمنڈ ڈیوس کی سلطنت [...]

The Taliban feel insulted when our officials say that the CIA is funding them to kill innocent Pakistanis


The Taliban feel insulted when our officials say that the CIA is funding them to kill innocent Pakistanis

Related article: Civil society demands Raymond Davis’s execution and Aafia Siddiqui’s release Culture of appeasement Express Tribune - Editorial, March 4, 2011 The killers of federal minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti must be puzzled by the way their murder, which they have claimed, is being interpreted in the media. They had put [...]

Pakistan’s Top 5 Liberal Fascists – by Razzak Memon


Pakistan’s Top 5 Liberal Fascists – by Razzak Memon

Editor's Note: Our contributer, Razzak Memon, has provided us a list of 5 whom he defines as "liberal fascist". Please bear in mind that while we support his right to express his views, we do not agree with the full article. For instance, we feel that there are some notable differences that Razzak does not highlight in the current post, e.g., the [...]

Defeating the “Forces of Paganism”: Former ISI Chief Hamid Gul blends Pakistani nationalism and Islamic revolution – by Andrew McGregor


Defeating the “Forces of Paganism”: Former ISI Chief Hamid Gul blends Pakistani nationalism and Islamic revolution – by Andrew McGregor

The retired former chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, is one of the most controversial political figures in Pakistan. Despite his once extremely close ties with the American Central Intelligence Agency during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Gul has since become one of Pakistan’s [...]

Civil society demands Raymond Davis’s execution and Aafia Siddiqui’s release


Civil society demands Raymond Davis’s execution and Aafia Siddiqui’s release

Related article: The Taliban feel insulted when our officials say that the CIA is funding them to kill innocent Pakistanis The following are two news items from daily Jang and daily The News (Chief Executive: Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, Chief Advisor: Najam Sethi) which illustrate the direction and nature of (fake) civil society's [...]

PML-N alliance with Musharraf League: Tariq Azeem to meet Nawaz in London


PML-N alliance with Musharraf League: Tariq Azeem to meet Nawaz  in London

It seems, the Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz and it's Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif have not learnt a lessons from past experiences.This is a true perception that, the PML-N and it's leadership always went for their vested interest rather going after Pakistan’s democratic, political, social and economic interests.  If we look recent activities of [...]

IJI style game plan


IJI style game plan

Related articles: IJI style game plan: phase two The Project IJI – Second Edition The Islami Jamhoori Ittehad alliance was a conglomerate formed of nine mainly rightist parties by the ISI under Lt General Hameed Gul to ensure the defeat of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in the polls.  DG ISI General Hameed Gul accepts that he [...]

Breaking News: Latest video of Colonel Imam Sultan Amir Tarar kidnapped by the Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists


Breaking News: Latest video of Colonel Imam Sultan Amir Tarar kidnapped by the Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists

Find: Laila Ebadi Here is an evidence of how extremist Deobandis (terrorists of the Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba) are now attacking the very institution, i.e., the ISI, which once groomed and nurtured them. Yet, Generals Kayani and Pasha are unable to liberate themselves from the God forsaken good Taliban and strategic depth theories. In the [...]

Editor’s Choice: They killed Benazir Bhutto and this is how it happened – by Anas Abbas


Editor’s Choice: They killed Benazir Bhutto and this is how it happened – by Anas Abbas

Anas Abbas is a co-editor of Critical PPP/LUBP who also administers his own blog at: http://aacounterterror.wordpress.com “Targeted assassination is a necessity of this modern world”. Those were the words of former MOSSAAD official in a recent BBC documentary programme Panorama amid the controversy surrounding the recent killing of a Hamas [...]

Rehman Malik’s U Turn


Rehman Malik’s U Turn

According to this report in Dawn Rehman Malik has removed Hamid Gul from the Exit Control List saying that he "personally thinks that Hamid Gul was not involved in Benazir Bhutto's murder". Rehman Malik is already under suspicion himself due to his unexplained behaviour during the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. By removing Hamid Gul's name [...]

The ISI (Zia-ul-Haq group) stages kidnap drama or wants to dispose of used cartridges? Two ex-ISI officials and a dubious journo “abducted” by the Taliban


The ISI (Zia-ul-Haq group) stages kidnap drama or wants to dispose of used cartridges? Two ex-ISI officials and a dubious journo “abducted” by the Taliban

Have they been ditched and bitten by one of their own? Or the General Zia-ul-Haq group of Pakistan's ISI has staged an interesting drama by claiming that two of its visible assets Squadron Leader (retired) Khalid Khwaja and Colonel (retired) Imam as well as an invisible asset, Asad Qureshi, a dubious journalist, have been kidnapped by the [...]

Hamid Gul, Uzma Gul, Varan Bus Service and the Transport Jihad


Hamid Gul, Uzma Gul, Varan Bus Service and the Transport Jihad

How honest is General Hamid Gul, the saviour of Pakistan, the guardian of jihadis and the Taliban? Varan Bus Service was established with millions of rupees loaned to the daughter and son-in-law of a former ISI chief, General Hameed Gul, now the most right wing spokesman of Islamic fundamentalists of Pakistan. His politics of course [...]

Benazir Bhutto murder case takes new turn as officials hunt for retired and serving army men


Benazir Bhutto murder case takes new turn as officials hunt for retired and serving army men

میں کس کے ہاتھ پہ اپنا لہو تلاش کروں Investigators are searching for four military personnel who had disappeared just before the assassination of the former prime minister. New twist in Benazir’s assassination probe ISLAMABAD: Investigations into murder of Benazir Bhutto take a new turn as Pakistani officials [...]

As the noose tightens – by Usama Bhutto


As the noose tightens – by Usama Bhutto

Since December last when the Supreme Court of Pakistan started hearing the petitions for NRO, political climate of the country took a revolve. Newspapers were littered with twisted facts about the controversial ordinance and the eletronic Media celebrated an overwhelming audience ; applauding the charismatic leadership of Hamid Mir, Kamran Khan [...]

Pakistan Army’s ‘strategic depth’ approach may lead to Pakistan’s strategic death


Pakistan Army’s ‘strategic depth’ approach may lead to Pakistan’s strategic death

‘Strategic death’? Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, in a rare press briefing, said, “We want a strategic depth in Afghanistan but do not want to control it.” These words underlie the fact that the Pakistan Army has still not given up on the idea of ‘strategic depth’ in Afghanistan — a policy that has proved [...]

The froth of Imran Khan – by Nadeem Paracha


The froth of Imran Khan – by Nadeem Paracha

Related article: Imran Khan will sweep next elections – by Abdul Nishapuri What can one say about Imran Khan? A great former cricketer, a compassionate philanthropist … a sorry excuse for a politician. But his continuing forays into bad politics and tactical blunders can be excused, for he is yet to understand that politics is not a [...]

The La La Land Internal Jihad Movement of Pakistan – by Nadeem Paracha


The La La Land Internal Jihad Movement of Pakistan – by Nadeem Paracha

The La La Land Internal Jihad Movement of Pakistan (also called LLIMP) is a hybrid vegetable/fruit that is becoming popular among middle-class health food fanatics. The medical benefits of LLIMP have been known since ancient times. The Neanderthals are known to have used it to treat everything from general boredom to ideological indigestion. In [...]

Benazir Bhutto Case: Access Denied is Justice Denied – by Anas Muhammad


Benazir Bhutto Case: Access Denied is Justice Denied – by Anas Muhammad

This year began with a blow to the UN investigation into Benazir Bhutto's murder, as the commission was denied access to the top brass military and intelligence officials. The three member commission, which was investigating the facts and circumstances that lead to former Prime Minister Ms Benazir Bhutto's murder, was not allowed to interview the [...]

Hamid Gul’s challenge to Iftikhar Chaudhry: Try me if you can!


Hamid Gul’s challenge to Iftikhar Chaudhry: Try me if you can!

Hamid Gul admits he had role in IJI formation LAHORE: Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Hamid Gul has said that he played a role in forming the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) and any accountability of the issue should be started from him, a private TV channel quoted him as saying on Monday. Talking to the channel, Gul said former [...]

A requiem for freedom – By Ayesha Siddiqa


A requiem for freedom – By Ayesha Siddiqa

Religion must be reinterpreted, not to make it acceptable to the rest of the world but to breathe life into the Muslim world itself.... Such people, who subscribe to the ideology of Hameed Gul — Pakistan’s indigenous version of Osama bin Laden — see the battle in terms of a clash of civilisations. Here is an op-ed by Dr Ayesha Siddiqa on [...]

Our jihadi Generals. Who will put them behind bars? – by Rauf Klasra


Our jihadi Generals. Who will put them behind bars? – by Rauf Klasra

Rauf Klasra criticizes our jihadi Generals (e.g. General Hamid Gul, General Aslam Beg etc) and holds them responsible for the current wave of terrorism and sectarianism in Pakistan. Quoting Muhammad Malick, Klasra suggests that the generals who should be serving in prison because of their criminal jihadi and anti-democracy activities are often [...]

Pakistani heroes of the Berlin Wall – Rauf Klasra


Pakistani heroes of the Berlin Wall – Rauf Klasra

"I met General Gul, who is now retired, in his house in a military district of Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, where he lives in spacious comfort. I was shown into a reception room, and I sat on a sofa waiting for the General to appear. Beside me, on a low table, a piece of the Berlin Wall was on display—a gift, it seemed, from the West German [...]

The Project IJI – Second Edition


The Project IJI – Second Edition

Compiled by: Abdul Nishapuri Note: This post was bitterly criticized by Hamid Mir and Ansar Abbasi in an episode of Capital Talk in November 2009. Title: The Project IJI (Islami Jamhoori Ittehad - Second Edition) Alias:Mullah Military Alliance Aim: To destabilize the democratic government of Pakistan Key sponsor: ISI, GHQ Key [...]

The future government of Pakistan – by Nazir Naji


The future government of Pakistan – by Nazir Naji

Nazir Naji identifies some possible names for a future idealistic government of Pakistan comprising some of the 'most capable' persons as identified in various TV talk-shows. President: General Hamid Gul (more...)

Froma Kharadar to Khajji Ground: A report by BBC Urdu’s Hasan Mujtaba


Froma Kharadar to Khajji Ground: A report by BBC Urdu’s Hasan Mujtaba

کھارادر سے کھجی گراؤنڈ تکحسن مجتبٰیبی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، نیو یارکسنہ بانوے میں کراچی میں امن و امان کی صورتحال ناگفتہ بہ تھی۔مئی انیس سو بانوے میں حیدرآباد کے قریب گائوں ٹنڈو بہاول میں فوجی [...]

General Aslam Beg’s Message to Supreme Court


General Aslam Beg’s Message to Supreme Court

In his letter to Nazir Njai, General Beg admits his implict threat in his message to the Supreme Court of (more...)

Qadam barhao Nawaz Sharif: Not only against Musharraf but also against Hamid Gul and Zia


Qadam barhao Nawaz Sharif: Not only against Musharraf but also against Hamid Gul and Zia

An interesting analysis by Latif Chaudhry. Also watch a video clip of Nawaz Sharif praising General Zia-ul-Haq and contrast that vidoe with his today's (more...)

Civil society in Pakistan must remain alert against anti-democracy conspiracies…


Civil society in Pakistan must remain alert against anti-democracy conspiracies…

Muhammad Amir Khakwani alerts the civil society in Pakistan against the anti-democracy forces, namely the ISI and their agents in Pakistani media. Some of such persons include Brigadier Imtiaz, Dr Shahid Masood, Kamran Khan, General Hameed (more...)

Are you sleeping Chief Justice Chaudhry? Why is Air Marshal Asghar Khan’s case pending before the SC since 1996?


Are you sleeping Chief Justice Chaudhry? Why is Air Marshal Asghar Khan’s case pending before the SC since 1996?

Govt not to ask SC to take up Asghar’s case: AG Tuesday, September 01, 2009 By Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: Attorney-General Sardar Latif Khosa on Monday said the government would not file an application in the Supreme Court, praying for an early hearing of Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan’s case pending before the SC [...]

Only bean-spilling spooks can tell why: The mysterious case of Brigadier Imtiaz – by Zaffar Abbas


Only bean-spilling spooks can tell why: The mysterious case of Brigadier Imtiaz – by Zaffar Abbas

ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: Brigadier (retd) Imtiaz Ahmed, or others like him who served in the security services over the past three decades, may alone know the real reason for re-igniting the controversies regarding their role in the making and breaking of political parties, alliances and governments, and of institutionalising corruption in the [...]

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