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His commitment to jihad – to an Islamic revolution transcending national boundaries, was such that he dreamed one day the "green Islamic flag" would flutter not just over Pakistan and Afghanistan, but also over territories represented by the (former Soviet Union) Central Asian republics. After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, as the director-general of the Pakistan's intelligence organisation, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate, an impatient Gul wanted to establish a government of the so-called Mujahideen on Afghan soil. He then ordered an assault using non-state actors on Jalalabad, the first major urban centre across the Khyber Pass from Pakistan, with the aim capturing it and declaring it as the seat of the new administration. This was the spring of 1989 and a furious prime minister, Benazir Bhutto – who was kept in the dark by ... Gul and ... Mirza Aslam Beg – demanded that Gul be removed from the ISI.
General Gul was born to Punjabi Pakhtun family of Yousafzai descent that had migrated from Swat to Lahore, from where his Subedar Major (in the British Indian Army) father got arable land in Sargodha where Gul was born. His grand father participated in the Khilafat Movement while the family was still in Swat. His great grandfather, Faiz Khan, fought in the army (Jamiatul Mujahideen) under the command of Deobandi Islam's ideologue Syed Ismail Shaheed.
General Gul was born to Punjabi Pakhtun family of Yousafzai descent that had migrated from Swat to Lahore, from where his Subedar Major (in the British Indian Army) father got arable land in Sargodha where Gul was born. His grand father participated in the Khilafat Movement while the family was still in Swat. His great grandfather, Faiz Khan, fought in the army (Jamiatul Mujahideen) under the command of Deobandi Islam's ideologue Syed Ismail Shaheed.
