Shadow of the Past: The father of Pakistan Army spokesman with Al Qaeda approved nuclear scientist

Officials said Pakistan Army spokesman Lieutenant Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, a continuing military conflict with India, is a link between the United Nations and the United States with Al-Qaeda (Al-QAEDA), the son of a nuclear scientist who provided the link with Al-Qaeda. Lt Gen Chaudhry, a three-star general, has been actively briefing the press in his capacity as the chief of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) since India conducted intelligence-based strikes at nine terror camps, including the headquarters of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, to avenge the fatal attack on 26 people, mainly tourists, in Pahalgam on April 22. According to UN documents, Choudhury’s father Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood was born in Amritsar and has been known to have met the late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Mahmood allegedly provides insights into the infrastructure required for the nuclear weapons program and the impacts related to nuclear weapons.

In addition, he was accused of raising funds for fundamentalist groups Ummah Tameer-e-nau, founded in 1999 to provide humanitarian causes in Afghanistan prescribed by the U.S. invasion in 2001.

Mahmood, retired from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, has written several books discussing the intersection of religion and science, including “Mechanisms of the Apocalypse and Life After Death”, in which he reflects the ultimate fate of the universe from an Islamic perspective.
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Currently, Mahmood, 85, lives in Islamabad. Lieutenant Choudhury was appointed as Director General of ISPR by Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir in December 2022.

It is worth noting that he was the co-pilot of the Pakistan Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps to achieve this position.

He has held important positions before, including as Director General of the National Defense Science and Technology Organization (Desto), a secret military research entity, in addition to military operations.

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Ummah Tameer-e-nau was banned and approved by the United States in 2001 and has links to several famous Pakistani figures, including the controversial former Director General of the Service Intelligent Intelligence (ISI), Lieutenant Hamid Gul.

Mahmood was reportedly arrested in 2001 after meeting with Osama bin Laden, but authorities later concluded that he lacked technical knowledge to transfer nuclear secrets.

His name is also found on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) and Blocked People.