Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood (Urdu: سلطان بشیر الدین محمود; b. 1940) is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar of Islamic studies. After a career in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999 – a radical organisation that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001. He was the subject of a criminal investigation launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over unauthorized travel to the Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks in 2001. Mahmood has been listed and sanctioned by the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council since December 2001. He has also been sanctioned as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States' Office of Foreign Assets Control, with an address listing at the Al-Qaeda Wazir Akbar Khan safe house in Kabul. He is also under the European Union sanctions since 2002. He has since been living in anonymity in Islamabad, authoring books on the relationship between Islam and science. His son Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry is the 22nd Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations of the Pakistan Armed Forces.