Mast Gul is a Pakistani figure best known for the 1995 Charar-e-Sharief siege in Indian-administered Kashmir, formerly of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen. Through October 6, 2023 the opening called him "a Pakistani terrorist operating in Indian administered state Jammu and Kashmir during 1995." Today's opening calls him only "a Pakistani militant," with terrorist surviving once elsewhere in the article, not the opening. A reader arriving now does not learn that the opening once called him a terrorist rather than merely a militant.
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Mast Gul ( Urdu : مست گل ), (born as Haroon Khan ), is a Pakistani terrorist operating in Indian administered state Jammu and Kashmir during 1995. Gul is also accused for carrying out "2014 Peshawar hotel attact". He is a resident of Khawaja town of Peshawar . He, along with his associates, entered the Holy shrine of Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali at Charar-i-Sharief in 1995. To avoid any damage to holy Shrine, he was offered a safe passage by India Administration, which he refused. All holed up militants started building bunkers inside the town which resulted in migration of all inhabitants of Charar-i-Sharief to different areas of Kashmir valley. The town was cracked down by Indian troopers for almost a month with no results. With the result, Gul and his associated got concentrated inside Shrine and Khanqah. During intervening night of 11 and 12 May 1995, shrine and Khanqah mysteriously caught fire, forcing holed up militants to come out in open. Gul managed to escape unhurt and was spotted in Pakistan Administered Kashmir.1
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Mast Gul ( Urdu : مست گل ), (born as Haroon Khan ), is a Kashmiri Islamic militant operating in Indian state Jammu and Kashmir during 1995. Gul is also accused for carrying out "2014 Peshawar hotel attack". He is a resident of Khawaja town of Peshawar . He, along with his associates, entered the Charar-e-Sharief shrine of Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali at Charar-i-Sharief in 1995. To avoid any damage to holy Shrine, he was offered a safe passage by India Administration, which he refused. All holed up militants started building bunkers inside the town which resulted in migration of all inhabitants of Charar-i-Sharief to different areas of Kashmir valley. The town was cracked down by Indian troopers for almost a month with no results. With the result, Gul and his associated got concentrated inside Shrine and Khanqah. During intervening night of 11 and 12 May 1995, shrine and Khanqah mysteriously caught fire, forcing holed up militants to come out in open. Gul managed to escape unhurt and was spotted in Pakistan Administered Kashmir. In 2001, he was disassociated from Hizbul Mujahideen following his involvement in Peshawar attack which was executed by Tehrik-i-Taliban .
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Pakistani militant (born c. 1966) Haroon Khan (born c. 1966 ), better known by his nom-de-guerre as Mast Gul or Major Mast Gul , is a Pakistani militant and the former member of Hizbul Mujahideen .He is best known for his role in the Charar-e-Sharief siege in 1995, one of the prominent events during the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir .He was also associated with the militant group Harkat-ul-Ansar , which was active in Kashmir during the 1990s.
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pakistani terrorist operating in indian administered state jammu and kashmir during 1995
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kashmiri islamic militant operating in indian state jammu and kashmir during 1995
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