Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Daga nan aka tura Gul zuwa GHQ a matsayin Darakta Janar ko DG na Leken Asiri (DGMI) a karkashin Janar Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq wanda daga nan ya nada shi shugaban ISI wanda ya gaji Janar Akhtar Abdur Rahman a watan Maris na 1987. Daga baya an maye gurbinsa a matsayin kwamandan ISI ta PM Benazir Bhutto a watan Mayu 1989 kuma an canza Gul a matsayin kwamandan, II Corps a Multan. A wannan matsayin, Gul ya gudanar da aikin soja na Zarb-e-Momin a watan Nuwamba-Disamba 1989, mafi girman wasan kwaikwayo na Sojojin Pakistan tun daga shekarar 1989.
Yaƙin Indo-Pakistan na 1971.