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10-05-2025
- Politics
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Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry: Pak ISPR chief is the son of UN-designated terrorist
Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry, the media face of Pakistan's military during tensions with India after Pahalgam terror attack, is the son of Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a UN-designated terrorist and has been a close aide of Osama Bin Laden. read more Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry, the Pakistani media face echoing the voice of the Pindi-based Pakistani force, is the son of Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a man Pakistan hails as a nuclear scientist, but whose affiliations reveal a darker legacy, with being designation as a UN-based terrorist. Chaudhry is a three-star General in the Pakistan Army and currently serves as the 22nd Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Of late, he has become the principal spokesperson of the Rawalpindi-based military, frequently justifying its actions and its deep-rooted policy of sponsoring terrorism, and later, blatant aggression rather than merely explaining the acts. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Father builds extremist organisation His father, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, founded Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999—an extremist Islamic organisation that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001. Although Pakistan celebrates Mahmood's contributions to its nuclear programme, international agencies have long viewed him with grave concern. DGISPR Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry is the son of a UN and US designated global terrorist Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood. His father provided Osama Bin Laden information about chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. — Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) May 10, 2025 UN sanctioned terrorist Mahmood was listed and sanctioned by the United Nations' Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2001. Additionally, he was designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which even listed his address as the Al-Qaeda safe house in Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul. Though Chaudhry continues to legitimise Pakistan's radical actions through official narratives, his familial ties to global terror networks cannot be overlooked. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD His father, now reportedly living in anonymity in Islamabad, has authored several books on the supposed connection between Islam and science. Among his more bizarre and widely ridiculed claims is the idea that electricity can be generated by capturing djinns. Father is close aide of Osama bin Laden His father was close to Osama bin Laden and came under US scrutiny. Pakistan remains an economic failure, producing little of significance, and its constant nuclear threats only strengthen its image as an irresponsible state. Recently, the world has been reminded of Pakistan's involvement in numerous major terrorist attacks, from 9/11 to the London bombings and the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, further embarrassing Islamabad. India has accused Pakistan of having direct links to the 22 April Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were brutally killed by Pakistan-based militants. Pakistan's long-standing policy of harbouring and weaponising terrorists as instruments of statecraft has once again come under international scrutiny. In response, India launched a highly successful anti-terror operation, Operation Sindoor , on 7 May, targeting terror camps and infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Indian army's precise attack on terror The Indian Armed Forces carried out precision strikes on nine identified terror camps, including key locations and headquarters in Bahawalpur and Muridke, long-time strongholds of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), respectively. The operation employed advanced military assets including Rafale jets equipped with SCALP missiles and AASM Hammer bombs, BrahMos cruise missiles, and loitering munitions. At a press briefing on Saturday, the Indian government said it does not seek escalation but will respond to any provocation. At a joint briefing with the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh and Colonel Sofiya Qureshi said India has responded to all Pakistani military actions and that the armed forces are in a high state of operational readiness.
India Today
10-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
The face of Pakistan's military is son of a terrorist linked to Osama bin Laden
One prime example that Pakistan's military establishment is inseparably woven with jihadi and terrorist elements is the three-star Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Chaudhry, who is briefing the world about the India-Pakistan military crisis, is the son of a declared terrorist, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, who was an aide of al-Qaida chief Osama bin the Pakistani military establishment works to spread disinformation against India's battle against terrorists, the world needs to remember that Lt Gen Chaudhary has the DNA of a terrorist who featured on the list of the UN Security Council's al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. Yes, it's the same Lt Gen Chaudhry who repeatedly appears before the world, trying to project Pakistan as "a helpless victim of terrorism".Lt Gen Chaudhry, as the DG of ISPR, is among the top military officers in Pakistan. Another example of the jihadi mix in the Pakistani military is its Army Chief, General Asim Munir. While Munir's father was a teacher-cleric, Chaudhry's father was a nuclear scientist who later went rouge and gave jitters to the West. While Abdul Qadeer Khan came to be known as the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme, Lt Gen Chaudhary's father, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, played a big role in developing the Islamic Republic's "dirty bomb".advertisementThe US intelligence machinery that kept tabs on the rogue Pakistani scientists was alarmed upon finding out that a nuclear scientist met al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. The last thing the US wanted was that al-Qaida or its associates have access to a nuclear bomb. It moved 2001 attacks on the US took place in September, and Mahmood was registered officially as a terrorist by the UN committee in December of that UNSC's al-Qaida Sanctions Committee page lists Lt Gen Chaudhry's father as "Mahmood Sultan Bashir-Ud-Din".Mahmood was listed by the UNSC's sanctions committee as a terrorist on December 24, 2001, for his association with al-Qaida, its chief Osama bin Laden and the charges against him are was proscribed for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of", "supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to" or "otherwise supporting acts or activities of" Usama [Osama] bin Laden, Al-Qaida and the Taliban," according to the UNSC's sanctions is why the West was alarmed by the father of Lt Gen Chaudhry, the brain behind Pakistan's disinformation just the West, Mahmood had freaked out his colleagues in Pakistan earlier. His "religious intensity, combined with his sympathy for Islamic extremism, scared his colleagues," according to a 2009 report in The New York Times was forced to retire Bashiruddin Mahmood, a loitering munition, then went on to co-found and become the director of Ummah Tameer e-Nau (UTN), veiled as a non-profit provided Osama bin Laden and the Taliban with information about chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, according to the UN al-Qaida Sanctions Committee report."During UTN visits to Afghanistan, Bashir-Ud-Din met Bin Laden and al-Qaida leaders and discussed nuclear, chemical and biological weapons," it 2001, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood also met then-Taliban chief Mullah a follow-up meeting, an associate of Osama bin Laden indicated that he had nuclear material and wanted to know how to use it to make a weapon."Bashiruddin provided information about the infrastructure needed for a nuclear weapons program and the effects of nuclear weapons," according to the UNSC committee was arrested in 2001, and investigated at the FBI's behest, and admitted to meeting Osama bin was the biggest Islamist terrorist that the world ever saw. He was the brain behind the 9/11 attacks, the worst terror attack on American soil, that changed the rules of aviation security and meeting of Osama and Mahmood was like a meeting of two devious minds working towards one devastating goal. Mahmood had the nuclear know-how that al-Qaida needed to smash the civilised world into the led Pakistan's efforts to enrich uranium and develop gas centrifuge technology, based on blueprints that Abdul Qadeer Khan had stolen from the Netherlands. Later, Mahmood went on to work for the development of the plutonium bomb, according to a 2009 article in The New York Times had all the markers that raised the alarm in the American intelligence fraternity. A nuclear scientist with radical Islamist views, and trying to aid terrorist groups like the deadly designs were revealed as evidence after the Taliban fled Kabul in November 2001, and the UTN's locations were searches "yielded documents setting out a plan to kidnap a US attache and outlining basic nuclear physics related to nuclear weapons".Under American pressure, Pakistan's notorious spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was forced to arrest and question Mahmood in when the world listens to the Pakistani disinformation belted out by DG ISPR Lt Gen Chaudhry, it has to remember that he is the son of a scientist-turned-terrorist who wanted to destroy the world by gifting al-Qaida a nuclear bomb. Lt Gen Chaudhry is a prime example of the jihadi DNA in the Pakistani Watch
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First Post
10-05-2025
- Politics
- First Post
Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry: Pak ISPR chief is the son UN-designated terrorist
Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry, the media face of Pakistan's military during tensions with India after Pahalgam terror attack, is the son of Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a UN-designated terrorist and controversial figure in Pakistan's nuclear programme. read more Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry, the Pakistani media face echoing the voice of the Pindi-based Pakistani force, is the son of Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a man Pakistan hails as a nuclear scientist, but whose affiliations reveal a darker legacy, with being designation as a UN-based terrorist. Chaudhry is a three-star General in the Pakistan Army and currently serves as the 22nd Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Of late, he has become the principal spokesperson of the Rawalpindi-based military, frequently justifying its actions and its deep-rooted policy of sponsoring terrorism, and later, blatant aggression rather than merely explaining the acts. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Father builds extremist organisation His father, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, founded Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999—an extremist Islamic organisation that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001. Although Pakistan celebrates Mahmood's contributions to its nuclear programme, international agencies have long viewed him with grave concern. UN and US designated terrorist Mahmood was listed and sanctioned by the United Nations' Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2001. Additionally, he was designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which even listed his address as the Al-Qaeda safe house in Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul. Though Chaudhry continues to legitimise Pakistan's radical actions through official narratives, his familial ties to global terror networks cannot be overlooked. His father, now reportedly living in anonymity in Islamabad, has authored several books on the supposed connection between Islam and science. Among his more bizarre and widely ridiculed claims is the idea that electricity can be generated by capturing djinns. India has accused Pakistan of having direct links to the 22 April Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were brutally killed by Pakistan-based militants. Pakistan's long-standing policy of harbouring and weaponising terrorists as instruments of statecraft has once again come under international scrutiny. In response, India launched a highly successful anti-terror operation, Operation Sindoor, on 7 May, targeting terror camps and infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Indian army's precise attack on terror The Indian Armed Forces carried out precision strikes on nine identified terror camps, including key locations and headquarters in Bahawalpur and Muridke, long-time strongholds of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), respectively. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The operation employed advanced military assets including Rafale jets equipped with SCALP missiles and AASM Hammer bombs, BrahMos cruise missiles, and loitering munitions.
News18
10-05-2025
- Politics
- News18
Who Is Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, Father Of Pakistan ISPR Chief With al-Qaeda & Taliban Links?
Last Updated: Bashiruddin Mahmood, father of Pakistan's ISPR chief Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary, is a nuclear scientist who was sanctioned by UN for providing chemical information to al-Qaeda The father of Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary is a nuclear scientist, who has been sanctioned by the United Nations for providing the Taliban and al-Qaeda with information about chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood is known for his eccentric views on science, as he had once claimed that djinns could be used to generate electricity. As per the UN, Bashiruddin had met with slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and 'provided information about the infrastructure needed for a nuclear weapons programme and the effects of nuclear weapons". Bashiruddin also founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999 – a right-wing organisation that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001. He was among those who were listed and sanctioned by the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2001. He was also sanctioned as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States' Office of Foreign Assets Control, with an address listing of the Al-Qaeda Wazir Akbar Khan safe house, Kabul. His Projects Bashiruddin is believed to have studied engineering in the United Kingdom and Germany. He was honoured with Pakistan's third-highest civilian honour, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Later, however, Bashiruddin became a critic of the politician, and supportive of jihadists in Afghanistan. He subscribes to a brand called 'Islamic science", which holds that the Quran is a fount of scientific knowledge. Bashiruddin has also published papers concerning djinni, which are described in the Quran as beings made of fire. He has proposed that these entities could be tapped to solve the energy crisis, and he has written on how to understand the mechanics of life after death. 'I think that if we develop our souls, we can develop communication with them," Bashiruddin Mahmood said about djinni in The Wall Street Journal in an interview in 1998. 'Every new idea has its opponents," he added. 'But there is no reason for this controversy over Islam and science because there is no conflict between Islam and science." Bashiruddin came to prominence as an engineer in the 1970's when he worked out a technique for detecting leaks in steam pipes at a Canadian-built reactor, the Karachi nuclear power plant, in Pakistan. Bashiruddin also spearheaded the development of the Kahuta plant near Islamabad, which, according to a 1992 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has the capacity to produce about 100 kg of enriched uranium a year, enough for half a dozen bombs. In an interview with The Financial Times, Bashiruddin said he opposed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on the ground that Pakistan needed to carry out test explosions to develop peaceful uses of atomic energy. After his arrest in 2001, Bashiruddin had admitted to meeting with Osama bin Laden. But he stressed that he only discussed raising funds for a technical college in Afghanistan. The ISI released him after it concluded that Bashiruddin did not possess the technical knowledge to pass on nuclear weapons secrets to al-Qaeda. His Prophecies Following his retirement from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Bashiruddin wrote books on doomsday, seeking to merge religious scripture with science. In 'Mechanics of the Doomsday and Life after Death', he warned that the Last Hour is not very far off. 'A few hundred years, this way or that, is of little significance. The end is imminent," he wrote, as quoted by ThePrint. First Published: May 10, 2025, 11:10 IST
