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General Mahmud Ahmed
Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed, is a veteran intelligence officer and a retired three-star general in the Pakistan Army who served as a director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the principal intelligence body of Pakistan. He along with other generals were successful in overthrowing the elected government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif, in the 1999 coup d'état to bring General Pervez Musharraf to political power. He was serving as the Corp Commander of X Corps, Rawalpindi at that time. After the coup, General Mahmud was transferred as the Director General ISI, replacing Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt, who was Sharif's choice to replace General Musharraf as the Army chief before the coup. He himself was replaced by another career Army intelligence officer Lieutenant General Jamshed Gulzar Kayani (of the 38th PMA Long Course) as the Rawalpindi Corps Commander.
During his time in ISI he pursued a Pakistani policy of supporting Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan such as Mohammed Omar.
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Filmibeat
March 15, 2018
Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers who flew the plane into the World Trade Centre on 9/11, received $US100,000 through an online transaction from Pakistan made by Ahmed Omar Saeed. CNN reported that Pakistani General Mahmud Ahmed fully knew about the transaction beforehand. Later the FBIÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 4, 2018
The Corps Commander X Corps, Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed and General Musharraf signed off on the plan and got the prime minister involved in the idea of raising the temperature of political discussions on Kashmir with India. This precipitated a military confrontation”. The upshot of this adventure was thatÃâà...
WBFO
February 14, 2018
"Absolutely it's an asset on the business side of things, to get very reliable, respectful, diligent workers to fill production roles that otherwise we have a difficult time doing," Crowe said. One of Crowe's employees is Mahmud Ahmed Gudal, a native of Somalia who spent time in a refugee camp in Malta beforeÃâà...
Spectrum News
February 13, 2018
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Every year, Catholic Charities helps hundreds of refugees find work once they arrive in Buffalo. Mahmud Ahmed Gudal came from Somalia in 2013 and was placed on a production crew at Neville Manufacturing. "After working for a year, I was promoted to supervisor and I'm still workingÃâà...
The Guardian
January 24, 2018
In a house on the outskirts of Kandahar, the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar picks his toes while then-ISI chief Mahmud Ahmed tries to convince him to give up Bin Laden. It doesn't happen, and neither Ahmed's entreaties to the Americans (“I implore you not to fire a shot in anger”) nor his warningsÃâà...
The Telegraph
December 29, 2017
Guwahati: An NIA special court here framed charges on Friday against Ulfa (Independent) militant Gagan Hazarika alias Joydeep Cheleng in a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 in which its commander-in-chief Paresh Barua and chairman Abhizeet Asom alias Mukul Hazarika areÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
November 6, 2017
... Mian Mahmud Ahmed, Javed Ashraf, Saeed Javaid Tariq, Waqar Azim, Nusrat Azim, Shaukat Azim, Sajad Azim, Abdul Sattar Kerio, Dr. Ghani Ansari, Fareed Variani, Farida Ataullah, Habibullah Khan Kundi, Mian Muhammad Ali Tariq, Muhammad Sualeh, Naheed Khan, Nasir Waseem Khan, Nayar Bari,Ãâà...
Daily Trust
July 11, 2017
Jibril, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Shehu Mahmud Ahmed, noted that the review exercise underscores the Federal Government's commitment to the principles of sustainable development and good governance, as well as the creation of an enabling environment that will ensure that herÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
May 9, 2016
Dr. Mahmud Ahmed is a legendary Ethiopian singer. He was born in Addis Ababa in a place called Mercato - one of the largest open market in Africa. He grew up listening Classic Ethiopian songs. Before he joined the world of music he had been through thick and thin. He had worked as a shoeshine and aÃâà...
New Statesman
December 31, 1999
The extensively documented four-hour meeting in Afghanistan between the ISI's then director-general Mahmud Ahmed and the Taliban's Mullah Omar on 17 September 2001, for example, should have been the moment for the author to nail down the narrative exposing top-level Pakistani complicity with theÃâà...
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