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Who is the most controversial ISI chief who accelerated the transformation of Pakistan into terrorism?
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Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul (1987-89).
In 1977 that ousted Bhutto and brought to power pro-Islamist army chief Gen. Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq, along with Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, led to the ISI’s long relationship with militant Islamist actors. For the next decade, the ISI — first under Gen. Akhtar Abdur Rahman (1980-87) and then Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul (1987-89) — with the help of the CIA and the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) backed Islamist fighters to combat Soviet troops supporting the communist People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government in Kabul. It was under the leadership of Abdur Rahman and Gul that Islamism crept into the body of the ISI.
