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Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood((ウルドゥー語: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 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 relationship between Islam and science. ==Life and education== 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.〔 After graduating with distinctions from a local high school standing at top of his class, Mehmood was awarded scholarship and enrolled at the famed Government College University to study electrical engineering.〔 After spending a semester, he made a transfer to University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, and graduated with bachelor's degree with honors in electrical engineering in 1960.〔 His credentials led him to join the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) where he gained scholarship to study in the United Kingdom. In 1962, he went to attend the University of Manchester where he studied for double master's degree.〔 First completing masters' program in control systems in 1965, then Mehmood received his another master's degree in nuclear engineering in 1969 from the Manchester University.〔 While in Manchester, Mehmood was an expert on Manhattan Project and was reportedly in contacts with South African scientists in discussing the jet-nozzel method for uranium-enrichment. However, it remains unclear how much interaction was taken place during that time.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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