Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul was a military commander in the Pakistani Army in the 1980s, and served as the head of the country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989.

The first Afro-American president has come to power in the US at a time when the world is suffering at the hands of the terror wave spurred by the global “war on terrorism” that was launched by his predecessor in response to the 9/11 attacks.