Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood
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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 and pseudoscientist.[2] 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.
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood | |
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Born | 1940 (age 83–84)[1] |
Citizenship | Pakistan |
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 |
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.[3] 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.[4]
Having been cleared by the FIA, he has been living in anonymity in Islamabad, authoring books on the relationship between Islam and science.