Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood(Urdu: سلطان بشیر الدین محمود‎; born 1940; SI), is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar on Islamic studies. He was the subject of a criminal probe launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on suspicions on unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the terrorist attacks in 2001. Having spent a distinguished career in PAEC, he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999– a right-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 the relationship between Islam and science.