Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood | |
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Born | 1940 (age 83–84)[1] |
Citizenship | Pakistani |
Alma mater | University of Engineering and Technology University of Manchester |
Known for | Work in nuclear industry Founded rightwing UTN SBM Leakage probe |
Children | Lt. Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry |
Awards | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (1998) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nuclear Engineering |
Institutions | Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) |
Website | darulhikmat |
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 was the subject of a criminal investigation launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks in 2001. Having been cleared by the FIA, 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]
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