ISLAMABAD (AP) — Family members say Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency during the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and who supported Islamic militants, has died of a brain hemorrhage. He was 79.His daughter, Uzma Gul, told The Associated Press on Sunday that her father died late Saturday night at the hill resort of Murree near the capital, Islamabad.Born in 1936, Gul served in the army and fought in two wars against India.

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