http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/15-Nov-2002/second-opinion-signs-of-collective-immaturity
"Great military mind ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Hameed Gul told "Khabrain" (November 4, 2002) that it was an American conspiracy which brought the Indian troops to Pakistan's borders and they were going back also as a part of this conspiracy. He said the smaller states of South Asia thought of Pakistan as their protector, but now Pakistan itself had become pliant (mom ki nak) in the hands of America.
General Hameed Gul is strikingly like Saddam Hussein who is glorified every time he suffers a defeat. Almost nothing that the general said in the last decade has come true, from India going to pieces to Taliban being the puppets of the United States. One must admire the ability of the man to keep his finger on the nationalist nerve of the Urdu press to bounce back repeatedly from failure into the limelight. The essence of a conspiracy is that you cannot refute it through logic. The manifest policy of the United States has been that India and Pakistan should not go to war, but if the Americans are conspiring actually to make the two fight a war, which will unaccountably rebound to the advantage of the United States, there is no logic that will stand against it. The general has another trophy to boast from this latest formulation."
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/05-Apr-2005/second-opinion-politics-of-confrontation-khaled-ahmed-s-tv-review
ARY (March 11, 2005) Dr Masood talked to ex-ISI chief General (retd) Hameed Gul and Pakistani nuclear physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy. Gul said India had surveillance over Pakistan through its contact with Israel which had the latest American technology. On the other hand Pakistan had no surveillance over India because it did not have contact with Israel. On the question of recognition, Gul said it was a question of faith for every Muslim. Baitul Maqdas had to be returned to the Muslims because it was the first Qibla. Hoodbhoy thought Pakistan could recognise Israel after the Palestinian state had been created.
Gul claimed that in 1933 Indian Congress sent a delegation to Spain to learn how to get rid of India's Muslims. Thus Congress had plans to make the bomb in 1933. Hoodbhoy said the plan to make the bomb in India began when scientist Homi Bhaba convinced Nehru that they should go for the bomb. He asked Gul not to refer only to the extremist Indians because there were good Indians too. Gul said Israel had stolen uranium from an American ship. He was corrected by Hoodbhoy that Israel had a plutonium-based nuclear programme and did not need to steal uranium. Gul said Americans wanted Pakistani programme destroyed after dubbing it Islamic. They will not touch North Korea but will go after Pakistan.
Hameed Gul as strategist is a disaster. India is dominant because of Israel but Pakistan should do nothing to offset this Indian advantage. It is like tying one arm behind your back before entering the wrestling arena. Two non-truths were delivered by him. One on Spain and one on Israel stealing uranium. But Hameed Gul can do no wrong. That he is the measure of Pakistan's intellectual ability is a tragedy.
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/08-Nov-2005/second-opinion-two-revolutionary-generals-khaled-ahmed-s-tv-review
"ARY (September 25, 2005) Dr Shahid Masood discussed the international scene with Hameed Gul who said that the Sunni-Shia massacre in Iraq was being organised by Israel. He said if Iran declared war against America all the Muslims will gather under one flag and the mujahideen who were without much to do would start fighting again.
He said Europe will be tied to America's leg. Now the war will be waged by the West against Muslims. Pakistan too would be affected. Dr Masood said that Arabs were heard saying they were more scared of the Iranian bomb than the Israeli bomb. Gul replied that the common man did not think like that. He said Shia-Sunni trouble will end as the Muslims united. He said America may attack and occupy the oil producing regions in Saudi Arabia. That was its old plan."
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/07-Feb-2006/second-opinion-hameed-gul-strategic-overcompensation-khaled-ahmed-s-tv-review
"Hameed Gul can claim knowledge that one can't challenge because he was the chief snoop of the country and knew how to package it in jihadi terms. He can go into denial that all of us love as Muslims because we can't bear to look at our warts while focusing on our victimhood. Gul's organisation of the IJI is unforgivable. One wonders why he has not gone into denial about it like his misadventure of Jalalabad, which other ISI officers have not stopped accusing him of.
He is in denial about the correct dimensions of the land he has acquired which he says was allowed by the High Court and NAB, both suspect in the eyes of the people, one for being scared of the ISI, and the other simply not willing to knock an ex-army type. His reverse-indoctrination in favour of Hekmatyar was a shameful act of betrayal. His later somersault in favour of the Taliban was equally shameful, even in the eyes of Hekmatyar. What he did to Yaqub Khan was dishonourable. In fact it was Gul who briefed Zia against the Geneva Accords and got the ISI to badmouth Yaqub who was right once again (after East Pakistan) in siding with Junejo who had accepted the Geneva Accords."
"Great military mind ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Hameed Gul told "Khabrain" (November 4, 2002) that it was an American conspiracy which brought the Indian troops to Pakistan's borders and they were going back also as a part of this conspiracy. He said the smaller states of South Asia thought of Pakistan as their protector, but now Pakistan itself had become pliant (mom ki nak) in the hands of America.
General Hameed Gul is strikingly like Saddam Hussein who is glorified every time he suffers a defeat. Almost nothing that the general said in the last decade has come true, from India going to pieces to Taliban being the puppets of the United States. One must admire the ability of the man to keep his finger on the nationalist nerve of the Urdu press to bounce back repeatedly from failure into the limelight. The essence of a conspiracy is that you cannot refute it through logic. The manifest policy of the United States has been that India and Pakistan should not go to war, but if the Americans are conspiring actually to make the two fight a war, which will unaccountably rebound to the advantage of the United States, there is no logic that will stand against it. The general has another trophy to boast from this latest formulation."
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/05-Apr-2005/second-opinion-politics-of-confrontation-khaled-ahmed-s-tv-review
ARY (March 11, 2005) Dr Masood talked to ex-ISI chief General (retd) Hameed Gul and Pakistani nuclear physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy. Gul said India had surveillance over Pakistan through its contact with Israel which had the latest American technology. On the other hand Pakistan had no surveillance over India because it did not have contact with Israel. On the question of recognition, Gul said it was a question of faith for every Muslim. Baitul Maqdas had to be returned to the Muslims because it was the first Qibla. Hoodbhoy thought Pakistan could recognise Israel after the Palestinian state had been created.
Gul claimed that in 1933 Indian Congress sent a delegation to Spain to learn how to get rid of India's Muslims. Thus Congress had plans to make the bomb in 1933. Hoodbhoy said the plan to make the bomb in India began when scientist Homi Bhaba convinced Nehru that they should go for the bomb. He asked Gul not to refer only to the extremist Indians because there were good Indians too. Gul said Israel had stolen uranium from an American ship. He was corrected by Hoodbhoy that Israel had a plutonium-based nuclear programme and did not need to steal uranium. Gul said Americans wanted Pakistani programme destroyed after dubbing it Islamic. They will not touch North Korea but will go after Pakistan.
Hameed Gul as strategist is a disaster. India is dominant because of Israel but Pakistan should do nothing to offset this Indian advantage. It is like tying one arm behind your back before entering the wrestling arena. Two non-truths were delivered by him. One on Spain and one on Israel stealing uranium. But Hameed Gul can do no wrong. That he is the measure of Pakistan's intellectual ability is a tragedy.
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/08-Nov-2005/second-opinion-two-revolutionary-generals-khaled-ahmed-s-tv-review
"ARY (September 25, 2005) Dr Shahid Masood discussed the international scene with Hameed Gul who said that the Sunni-Shia massacre in Iraq was being organised by Israel. He said if Iran declared war against America all the Muslims will gather under one flag and the mujahideen who were without much to do would start fighting again.
He said Europe will be tied to America's leg. Now the war will be waged by the West against Muslims. Pakistan too would be affected. Dr Masood said that Arabs were heard saying they were more scared of the Iranian bomb than the Israeli bomb. Gul replied that the common man did not think like that. He said Shia-Sunni trouble will end as the Muslims united. He said America may attack and occupy the oil producing regions in Saudi Arabia. That was its old plan."
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/07-Feb-2006/second-opinion-hameed-gul-strategic-overcompensation-khaled-ahmed-s-tv-review
"Hameed Gul can claim knowledge that one can't challenge because he was the chief snoop of the country and knew how to package it in jihadi terms. He can go into denial that all of us love as Muslims because we can't bear to look at our warts while focusing on our victimhood. Gul's organisation of the IJI is unforgivable. One wonders why he has not gone into denial about it like his misadventure of Jalalabad, which other ISI officers have not stopped accusing him of.
He is in denial about the correct dimensions of the land he has acquired which he says was allowed by the High Court and NAB, both suspect in the eyes of the people, one for being scared of the ISI, and the other simply not willing to knock an ex-army type. His reverse-indoctrination in favour of Hekmatyar was a shameful act of betrayal. His later somersault in favour of the Taliban was equally shameful, even in the eyes of Hekmatyar. What he did to Yaqub Khan was dishonourable. In fact it was Gul who briefed Zia against the Geneva Accords and got the ISI to badmouth Yaqub who was right once again (after East Pakistan) in siding with Junejo who had accepted the Geneva Accords."
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