Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood
| Sultan Bashirudding Mehmood | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 76–77) Amritsar, Punjab, British India (Present-day India) |
| Residence | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Nationality | Pakistan |
| Fields | Nuclear Engineering |
| Institutions | Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) |
| Alma mater |
University of Engineering and Technology University of Manchester |
| Known for | Work in nuclear industry Founded leftwing UTN SBM Leakage probe |
| Influenced | Dr Israr Ahmed |
| Notable awards | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (1998) |
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Website darulhikmat |
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Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood(Urdu: سلطان بشیر الدین محمود; born 1940;SI), is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar on Islamic studies who was notoriously subjected for a criminal probe launched by the FIA on suspicions on unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the deadliest terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.
Having spent a distinguish career in PAEC, he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999– a left-wing organization that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001. Mehmood was among those who were listed and sanctioned by the al-Qaeda sanction committee in December 2001. Having been cleared by the FIA, he has been living in anonymity in Islamabad, authoring books on relationship between Islam and science.
Mahmood was born in Amritsar, Punjab, British India to the Punjabi family. There are conflicting reports on concerning his date of birth; his personal admission noted the birth year as 1940, while the UN reports estimated as 1938. His father, Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif, was a local Zamindar (lit. feudal lord). His family emigrated from India to Pakistan in an events following the Religious violence in India in 1947; the family settled in Lahore, Punjab.
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