Mahmud Ahmed
Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed HI(M) (Urdu: محمود احمد; b. 1944) is a retired Pakistani three-star rank army general who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence from 1999 to 2001.
Mahmud Ahmed | |
|---|---|
| Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence | |
| In office 20 October 1999 – 7 October 2001 | |
| Preceded by | Gen. Ziauddin Butt |
| Succeeded by | Lt-Gen. Ehsan ul Haq |
| President of the National Defence University | |
| In office 1998–1999 | |
| Preceded by | Lt. Gen. Maqbool Ahmad |
| Succeeded by | Lt. Gen. Salah ul Din Tirmazi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mahmud Ahmed c. 1944 (age 79–80) Ludhiana, Punjab, British India (Present-day in Punjab in India) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Pakistan |
| Branch/service | Pakistan Army |
| Years of service | 1964–2001 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-General |
| Unit | Pakistan Army Artillery Corps (PA-7710) |
| Commands | Corps of Artillery X Corps in Rawalpindi DG Military Intelligence 23rd Infantry Division in Jhelum |
| Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1999 India-Pakistan standoff 2001 War in Afghanistan in 2001 |
| Awards | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
He played a crucial role in sponsorship of armed insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir and commanded the X Corps against the Indian Army during the Kargil War in 1999, and was identified as one of the four army generals who helped initiate the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état against the civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, also in 1999. As the DG ISI, Mahmud actively supported the sponsorship of the Islamic fundamentalism by endorsing the Talibans in Afghanistan under its emir Mullah Omar in 2000.
Despite being responsible of stabilizing Gen. Pervez Musharraf's control over the civilian government and later his presidency, Lt-Gen. Ahmad was notably forced to retire from his commission when his involvement surfaced in alleged financing of the Hamburg cell led by Mohamed Atta, an al-Qaeda operative in 2000-01.: 74–75