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Gul, Ḥamīd, 1936-2015

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Personal name headingGul, Ḥamīd, 1936-2015
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Variant(s)Ḥamīd Gul, 1936-2015
‏گل، حميد،‏ ‏1936-2015
،حميد گل‏ ‏1936-2015
Birth date19361120
Death date20150815
Place of birthSargodha (Pakistan)
Place of deathMurree (Pakistan)
Field of activityIntelligence service Pakistan--Foreign relations--Afghanistan
AffiliationPakistan. Army
Pakistan. Inter Services Intelligence
Profession or occupationGenerals Intelligence officers
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inĪfāʼe ʻahd, 2012: t.p. (جنرل (ر) حميد گل= Janral (R) Ḥamīd Gul)
Wikipedia, WWW site viewed, Apr. 13, 2012 (Hamid Gul, born 20 November 1936) HI(M), SBt, is a retired high-ranking general officer in the Pakistan Army, from 1958 to 1992, famous for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, between 1987 and 1989 during the late stages of and post-stages of the Soviet war in Afghanistan)
New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 17, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 16: Hamid Gul; b. Nov. 20, 1936, Sargodha, Punjab Province; d. Saturday [Aug. 15, 2015], Mur[r]ee, near Islamabad, aged 78; influential and contentious three-star general who served as the head of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's spy agency, from 1987 to 1989 and was deeply involved in the country's policy toward neighboring Afghanistan when Soviet troops were withdrawing)
Associated languageeng urd