Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood
Born1940 (age 83–84)[1]
Amritsar, Punjab, British India
CitizenshipPakistani
Alma materUniversity of Engineering and Technology
University of Manchester
Known forWork in nuclear industry
Founded rightwing UTN
SBM Leakage probe
ChildrenLt. Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry
AwardsSitara-e-Imtiaz (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear Engineering
InstitutionsPakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
Websitedarulhikmat.com/author.html

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood[note 1] (Urdu: سلطان بشیر الدین محمود; b. 1940;,[1] SI, PE) is a Pakistani nuclear engineer, a scholar of Islamic studies. He has been living in anonymity in Islamabad, authoring books on the relationship between Islam and science.

Having spent a distinguished career in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999 – a right-wing organisation that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001. Mahmood was among those who were listed and sanctioned by the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2001.[2] He was also sanctioned as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States' Office of Foreign Assets Control, with an address lisiting of the Al-Qaeda Wazir Akbar Khan safe house, Kabul.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Sultan Muhammad Bashir-ud-din Mahmood". Darulhikmat. darulhikmat.com. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  2. ^ UN work. "MAHMOOD SULTAN BASHIR-UD-DIN". UN.org. UN al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanction Committee. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Sultan Bashir-Ud-Din Mahmood". sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov. Retrieved 26 June 2023.


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