Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani physicist”. Today it says “pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar of islamic studies”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; New York Times comments”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood (or Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood , b. 1938 ) is a Pakistani physicist, educated in Lahore and Britain ; he has written several books on the scientific aspects of Islam . Mahmood was a key figure in the development of the Pakistani nuclear industry since the late 1960s . He worked with Abdul Qadeer Khan on the Pakistan nuclear weapon project from 1974, and designed the Khushab plant near Lahore, a heavy water reactor that produces plutonium . Mahmood was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his work. After he retired from the program he worked for a charity active in Afghanistan , the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (Reconstruction of the Islamic Community) and was arrested in October 2001 by Pakistani Intelligence agents on suspicion of sharing his nuclear expertise with the Taliban regime. Mahmood was released November 22 , 2001 . During the early phase of the US invasion of Afghanistan , the American military bombed and destroyed Ummah Tameer-e-Nau's flour mill and flour godowns in Qandahar , causing widespread starvation.1
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The opening as it stood in 2010 7 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood (or Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood ), ( ), born 1938, is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and Islamic scholar educated in Lahore , Punjab , Pakistan and the Manchester , United Kingdom .Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood is widely popular in Pakistan's scientific and religious circle.Mahmood is an experienced atomic scientist and engineer who has largely contributed in the formative years of Pakistan's nuclear industry .Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood is well known for his contacts and sympathies for Taliban which resulted in ending his prominent engineering career .Sultan Mahmood is also a Islamic scholar as well scientific scholar .He has written more than 15 books concerning with the relationship between Islam and Science .
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Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood ( ; born 1940; SI ), is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar on Islamic studies who was notoriously subjected for a criminal probe launched by the FIA on suspicions on unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the deadliest terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.Having spent a distinguish career in PAEC , he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999– a right-wing organization that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001.Mehmood was among those who were listed and sanctioned by the al-Qaeda sanction committee in December 2001.Having been cleared by the FIA , he has been living in anonymity in Islamabad , authoring books on relationship between Islam and science .UN al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanction Committee .
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Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood ( SI ) ( ;) born 1940; is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar of Islamic studies .He was the subject of a criminal investigation launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks in 2001.Having spent a distinguished career in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999– a right-wing organization that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001.Mahmood was among those who were listed and sanctioned by the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2001. Having been cleared by the FIA, he has been living in anonymity in Islamabad , authoring books on the relationship between Islam and science . UN al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanction Committee . There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).
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Pakistani nuclear engineer Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood ( ; b. 1940;, SI , PE ) is a Pakistani nuclear engineer , a scholar of Islamic studies and pseudoscientist. He was the subject of a criminal investigation launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks in 2001. Having spent a distinguished career in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999 – a right-wing organisation that was banned and sanctioned by the United States in 2001. Mahmood 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 lisiting of the Al-Qaeda Wazir Akbar Khan safe house, Kabul . Having been cleared by the FIA, he has been living in anonymity in Islamabad , authoring books on the relationship between Islam and science . UN al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanction Committee . There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Pakistani nuclear engineer Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood ( Urdu : سلطان بشیر الدین محمود ; b. 1940) is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar of Islamic studies . Having spent a distinguished career in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), he 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 the subject of a criminal investigation launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks in 2001. Mahmood 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 lisiting of the Al-Qaeda Wazir Akbar Khan safe house , Kabul. He has since been living in anonymity in Islamabad , authoring books on the relationship between Islam and science . UN al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanction Committee . There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).
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pakistani physicist
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pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar of islamic studies
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