Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has expressed his condolences. While critics described him as a delusional conspiracy theorist who had little regard for democratic politics, hardline supporters considered him a patriotic Pakistani and a true Muslim, says the BBC Pakistan correspondent Shahzeb Jillani. General Gul supported the armed insurgency in Afghanistan and Indian-administered Kashmir.
For more than two decades after he retired in , Gen Gul frequently appeared on global news media often blaming Washington and Delhi for violence and instability in Pakistan. He was often seen at hardline Islamist rallies alongside militant leaders considered close to the Pakistani army. Gul was born in Sargodha, Punjab, in what was then British India. His father, a small farmer, had served in the British Indian army.
Educated locally, then in Lahore and later at a Pakistani military academy, he was commissioned into the army in As a tank commander in the war with India over Kashmir, he was credited with contributing to a Pakistani victory at the battle of Chawinda, holding back the Indian offensive towards Sialkot.
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Taliban denies reports of Mullah Omar's death spread by Afghan intelligence The Taliban has contradicted a report by the Afghanistan intelligence agency that its spiritual leader Mullah Omar was killed in Pakistan, two days ago, by claiming that he was "living in a safe place". Because he led the jehad that ultimately destroyed the Soviet Empire. Though reclusive earlier, lately he had become quite accessible. He set up a Twitter account and, just a few days before his death, showed he at least had a sense of humour.
He asked on Twitter, why a nice Sikh girl like Sunny Leone was wasting her time in pornography and movies when she could have offered her services to the Khalistani cause.
In fact, till his death, there was mystery even about his Twitter handle. Subterfuge, after all, was so essential to the personality of this evil man. The Pakistani Independence Day August 14 of came immediately in the wake of the dismissal of Bhutto and the installation of Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi as a caretaker prime minister. I was reporting the story then and was invited to the official post-Independence Day flag-hoisting reception. I needled him by asking how successful he thought Zarb-e-Momin had been.
I too was 25 years younger and more reckless. I told him Sundarji, after retirement, was beginning a new column in India Today magazine. India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises. But the news media is in a crisis of its own. There have been brutal layoffs and pay-cuts. The best of journalism is shrinking, yielding to crude prime-time spectacle.
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