Editing Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood (section)

{{Short description|Pakistani nuclear engineer}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2012}}
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| alma_mater        = [[University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore|University of Engineering and Technology]]<br />[[University of Manchester]]
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| known_for         = Work in [[Nuclear power in Pakistan|nuclear industry]]<br />Founding [[Ummah Tameer-e-Nau]]
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'''Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood'''{{#tag:ref |alternative spellings: '''Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood'''. In [[News channels in Pakistan|news media]] of Pakistan, he is often known as '''Dr. Bashiruddin''' |name="name" |group="note"}} ({{langx|ur|سلطان بشیر الدین محمود}}; b. 1940)<ref name="darulhikmat.com">{{Cite web|title=Sultan Muhammad Bashir-ud-din Mahmood|website=Darulhikmat|publisher=darulhikmat.com|url=http://www.darulhikmat.com/author.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114180131/http://www.darulhikmat.com/author.html|archive-date=14 January 2012|df=dmy-all|access-date=8 January 2023}}</ref> is a Pakistani [[nuclear engineer]] and a scholar of [[Islamic studies]].

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 [[Sanctions (law)|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 in [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] prior to the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001. Mahmood was among those who were listed and sanctioned by the [[Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee]] in December 2001.<ref name="UN al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanction Committee">{{cite web|last1=UN work|title=MAHMOOD SULTAN BASHIR-UD-DIN|url=https://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQI05501E.shtml|website=UN.org|publisher=UN al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanction Committee|access-date=22 January 2015}}</ref> 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 safe house|Al-Qaeda Wazir Akbar Khan safe house]], Kabul.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sultan Bashir-Ud-Din Mahmood |url=https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=7133 |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov}}</ref> 

He has since been living in anonymity in [[Islamabad]], authoring books on the relationship between [[Islam and science]].