Mahmud Ahmed is a retired Pakistani three-star rank army general who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence from 1999 to 2001.
19 Facts About Mahmud Ahmed
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Mahmud Ahmed commanded the X Corps against the Indian Army during the Kargil War in Indian-administered Kashmir in 1999, and was identified as one of the four army generals who helped initiate the 1999 Pakistani coup d'etat against the elected civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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Mahmud Ahmed was born in 1944 in Ludhiana, Punjab in British India, and joined the Pakistan Army in 1964 where he did his combat duty, first participating in second war with India in 1965.
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Mahmud Ahmed's family emigrated from India to Bhaiwala, Faisalabad Pakistan after India's partition on 14 August 1947.
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Mahmud Ahmed secured his graduation from Lawrence College in Murree before attending Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul in 1965.
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Mahmud Ahmed passed out from the PMA Kakul in 1966 where he commissioned as 2nd-Lt in the 16th Self-Propelled in the Corps of Artillery.
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Lieutenant Mahmud Ahmed was the regimental colleague of then army Captain Pervez Musharraf.
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Mahmud Ahmed participated in the third war with India on the western front, and he was very critical of defence spending by the Ayub administration after 1965.
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Mahmud Ahmed was promoted to three-star rank, Lieutenant-General and was moved the President of the National Defence University in Islamabad by then-Chairman joint chiefs Gen.
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Mahmud Ahmed was described as ultraconservative, professional and kind to his subordinates though some found him to be control minded with a very short-temper.
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Mahmud Ahmed greatly aided in providing the tactical support of mass troop infiltration, starting first by closely and micromanaging the troop deployment near the LoC.
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Mahmud Ahmed refused to accept to follow the orders of new chain of command set up by then-army chief Gen.
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Mahmud Ahmed was appointed as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence, and his tenureship was marked with alleged terror financing of al-Qaeda and sponsoring the Talibans in Afghanistan.
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Mahmud Ahmed was later replaced by Lt General Khalid Kidwai as the colonel commandant on 13 October 2004.
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Mahmud Ahmed was immediately removed from the directorship of the ISI, when President Musharraf terminated his commission under US pressure, and was replaced by Lt-Gen.
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Mahmud Ahmed viewed the American attack on Afghanistan with great suspicion, and had held sympathetic views towards the Talibans in Afghanistan.
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Mahmud Ahmed later regretted his role in playing his part in bringing to help stabilize Gen.
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Mahmud Ahmed is a member of Tablighi Jamaat and preaches the teaching of Islam.
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Mahmud Ahmed wrote a book initially titled "The Myth of 1965 Victory".