Hamid Gul

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  Pakistan's Thin Red Line: Armed Teachers In Classrooms

  Headmaster Naveed Gul walked past the armed guard at the gate into his office. As primary school pupils studied their morning lessons outside, he reached beneath his warm woolly sweater, and pulled out a gun.

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  Tributes for Pakistan's Ex-ISI Chief Hamid Gul Bound to Upset India and Afghanistan

  Tributes for Pakistan's late former Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) chief Hamid Gul poured in today, words bound to infuriate Pakistan's neighbours after he spent a career promoting militancy in Afghanistan and India.

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  Pakistan's Former ISI Chief Hamid Gul Dies

  Pakistan's spy agency ISI's former chief Lt General (retd) Hamid Gul tonight passed away after a brain haemorrhage.

• Afghan Landslide Toll Unlikely to Rise Above 500: Officials

  Afghan officials have said that it is unlikely that the number of those killed in Friday' landslide will be above 500. The announcement of revised figures by Gul Mohammad Baidaar, deputy governor of Badakhshan, came hours after earlier information that over 2,100 people had died in the landslide.

• Former Warlord Joins Abdullah in Afghan Election

  A former Afghan warlord nicknamed "the bulldozer" joined front-runner Abdullah Abdullah's presidential campaign on Saturday, as deal-making hots up before the decisive run-off vote next month.

• Votes sell for about $5 in Afghanistan as presidential race begins

  Sayed Gul walked into a small mud brick room in eastern Afghanistan, a bundle wrapped in a shawl on his back. With a flick, he plonked the package onto a threadbare carpet and hundreds of voter cards spilled out.

• Bombmaker Abdul Karim Tunda slapped on Delhi court premises

  Master bomb-maker Abdul Karim Tunda was slapped, reportedly by a Hindu activist, at a Delhi court before being produced for a hearing on his custody.

• Former ISI chief Hamid Gul was Lashkar terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda's handler: sources

  Gul, who retired in 1992 as chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, denied this. Speaking to NDTV, he said, "He (Tunda) is lying. There is no truth in his claims. I have never met him."

• Former ISI chief Hamid Gul was Lashkar terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda's handler: Sources

  Tunda, one 20 most wanted terrorists in India, has reportedly said that he had met Mr Gul in 1995 and has been in touch with him through the years. India has for long alleged that Pakistan's ISI and Army support terrorism against India. Pakistan denies it outright.

• Endgame Afghanistan: Talking to the Taliban

  The Taliban is the same group that preferred war with the United States over handing over its friends from the Al Qaeda. It is the same group that continues to haunt Afghans. So what has led to talks with the Taliban in the run-up to 2014, when Western troops will exit Afghanistan completely?

• Afghan teen says she wants her tormentors to face justice

  A week after Sahar Gul, 15, was rescued from the house of her husband's parents, where she was tortured for months, she is demanding justice. She wants to see her husband and in-laws behind bars. Gul's in-laws kept her in a basement for six months and tortured her with hot irons.

• Qureshi went too far, says ex-ISI chief

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was wrong in comparing the statements made by Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and Indian Home Secretary G K Pillai, former ISI chief Hamid Gul has said.  Gul, however also remarked that the timing of Pillai's statement was not appropriate. He said that the remarks were unnecessary, from both side...