Lt General Mahmoud and Omar Sheikh


Lt General Mahmoud - ISI (Alive) Head of Pakistani Intelligence alleged to have ordered transfer of funds to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta via British Pakistani operative Omar Sheikh.	Omar Sheikh - ISI (Death Sentence) British Pakistani alleged to have arranged the transfer of $100,000 to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, on the instructions of Lt General Mahmoud

"One British Muslim of Pakistani origin radicalised by the civil war in Yugoslavia was LSE-educated Omar Saeed Sheikh. He is now in jail in Pakistan under sentence of death for the killing of the US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 - although many (including Pearl's widow and the US authorities) doubt that he committed the murder. However, reports from Pakistan suggest that Sheikh continues to be active from jail, keeping in touch with friends and followers in Britain. Sheikh was recruited as a student by Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), which operates a network in Britain. It has actively recruited Britons from universities and colleges since the early 1990s, and has boasted of its numerous British Muslim volunteers. .... Why then is Omar Sheikh not being dealt with when he is already under sentence of death? Astonishingly his appeal to a higher court against the sentence was adjourned in July for the 32nd time and has since been adjourned indefinitely. This is all the more remarkable when this is the same Omar Sheikh who, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI's financial crimes unit. Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears to have been sought for questioning by the US about 9/11. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought to downplay the role of Pakistan with the comment: 'To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance' - a statement of breathtaking disingenuousness. All this highlights the resistance to getting at the truth about the 9/11 attacks...."
Britain now faces its own blowback
Guardian, 10 September 2005

'The Pakistan connection'
There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?
Michael Meacher
Thursday July 22, 2004
The Guardian - Click Here For Full Article

"In London's prestigious The Guardian (July 22, 2004), Michael Meacher, a Labor MP writing a piece on 'The Pakistan Connection' has made [the] sensational disclosure that a British Pakistani Islamist Omar Saeed Sheikh, waiting to be hanged in Pakistan for the alleged murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 [is] held by both the US government and Pearl's wife not responsible for the murder while Islamabad refuses to try other suspects newly implicated in Pearl's kidnap and murder for fear the evidence they produce in court might acquit Sheikh. Sheikh is the man who knows too much and Pakistani authorities fear that if he gets out of their hands, he might spill their secret beans since he had been involved in their key operations. According to Meacher Sheikh had been the conduit for transferring US$100,000 by Gen Mahmud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker'. Meacher wants General Mahmud to be questioned and put on trial.... For years the CIA used the ISI as a conduit to pump billions of dollars into militant Islamist groups in Afghanistan, both before and after the Soviet invasion of 1979.... The case of Ahmed confirms that parts of the ISI directly supported and financed Al-Qaeda, and it has long been established that the ISI has acted as go-between in intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA."
Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Former Pakistan High Commissioner to UK
Is Aziz the Continuity Factor For Washington After Musharraf
South Asia Tribune, 29 July 2004

"There are reports that US investigators have uncovered evidence of financial transfers linking Osama Bin Laden to the 11 September attacks on America. According to FBI sources, Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad, a suspected Bin Laden financial operative, transferred money to Mohamed Atta, one of the hijackers, in the days running up to the attacks. Furthermore Atta and two of the other hijackers transferred some $15,000 back to an account under the same name just two days before the attacks. Mr Ahmad, also known as Sheikh Saeed, [and also as Omar Sheikh who is not mentioned at all in the 9/11 Commission report published July 2003] is one of 27 individuals or groups with a known link to Bin Laden who have had their assets in America frozen.... Cash transfers were made to Atta via a money service in Florida on 8 and 9 September from an account in Dubai, under the name of Mustafa Ahmad."
Bin Laden's 'cash link' to hijackers
BBC Online, 1 October 2001

"On Oct. 9, 2001, the Pakistani daily Dawn reported the ISI director-general, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, was fired after FBI investigators established a link between him and a $100,000 wire transfer to 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in the summer of 2000. This report was also carried by the Wall Street Journal. Paul Sperry, Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily.com, wrote in his Jan. 30, 2002, column that Dennis Lormel, who until the end of 2003 led the FBI's terrorist finance investigations, confirmed this transaction...."
Outside View: 9/11 report sidesteps Pakistan
United Press International, 26 July 2004

"Director General of Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed has been replaced after the FBI investigators established credible links between him and Umar Sheikh, one of the three militants released in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999. The FBI team, which had sought adequate inputs about various terrorists including Sheikh from the intelligence agencies, was working on the linkages between Sheikh and former ISI chief Gen Mahmud which are believed to have been substantiated, reports PTI website. Informed sources said there were enough indications with the US intelligence agencies that it was at Gen Mahmud's instruction that Sheikh had transferred 100,000 US dollars into the account of Mohammed Atta, one of the lead terrorists in strikes at the World Trade Centre on Sept 11, it adds."
Gen Mahmud's exit due to links with Umar Sheikh
Dawn (Pakistan), 9 October 2001

"On Oct. 6, the night before U.S. President George W. Bush launched air strikes against Afghanistan, Musharraf fired ISI chief Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, one of the men who staged the military coup that brought Musharraf to power two years before. Ahmed shared the Taliban's ideology. A senior Taliban official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press Ahmed met Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to urge him not to extradite bin Laden. Ahmed also met another Taliban leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani, in Rawalpindi in October and promised him ISI support if he remained with the Taliban. Ahmed has refused to speak with The Associated Press."
Musharraf Set To Cut Ties Between Spy Agency And Islamic Militants
Associated Press, 21 February 2002

"Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S. fight against terrorism, is not convinced that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a report on Sunday. 'I didn't think it possible that Osama sitting up there in the mountains could do it,' Musharraf said in an interview in the Aug. 12 edition of the New Yorker magazine, nearly a year after hijacked planes killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and in Pennsylvania. 'He was perhaps the sponsor, the financier, the motivating force. But those who executed it were much more modern. They knew the U.S., they knew aviation. I don't think he has the intelligence or the minute planning. The planner was someone else,' Musharraf said about the Saudi-born militant."
Musharraf not convinced that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind 9/11
Reuters, 4 August 2002

"We first came to Karachi four month's ago: September 12, 2001. We flew in from New Delhi.... We had witnessed the [911] attacks almost as they had happened on CNN ... We were here to ask the big questions: Who was responsible for the attacks? Who financed them? Who protected the terrorists?.... In October, the FBI were looking for a link between Omar Saeed Sheikh and the then director of the ISI, Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmed. They wanted to know who instructed Omar to wire the $100,000 to Mohammed Atta. I read that Ahmed had been dismissed as head of the ISI by President Musharraf on October 7, 2001. So it appeared Omar may have associated with the head of ISI and Al Qaeda. He surrendered to another former ISI officer who held him in custody for a week until just one day before Musharraf met with President Bush.... Questions bounce back and forth in my brain like a Ping-Pong ball gone wild. The distinctions between good and bad, government organisations and terrorist organisations, are not simply fading: they seem to be faces of the same coin. Did Musharraf know Omar was in custody? Could he not know? The CIA (God only knows what their position is here) didn't know?"
'A Mighty Heart' by Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl
Virago Press, 2003

"Last Thursday, a senior White House official called Mariane Pearl and Paul Steiger, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, to report a new, key development in the investigation into the death of Mariane's husband, Journal reporter Daniel Pearl..... Although American officials first denied that [Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed had anything to do with Pearl's killing, this week they confirmed that they now believe he was responsible. But that revelation raises more questions than it answers. The full investigation into Danny's death could well proceed in directions that will make both Pakistan and U.S. investigators uncomfortable..... Until now, Omar Saeed Sheikh, the young Pakistani London School of Economics dropout who was sentenced to death in July 2002 for organizing the Pearl kidnapping, had been identified as the ringleader of a carefully assembled alliance of extremist Muslim militants working in at least four different terrorist cells. Mohammed would link Omar Sheikh more explicitly to the wider and more sinister al-Qaida network. The question, though, is whether this will lead to an even more troubling connection: between al-Qaida and Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, which has been linked to Omar Sheikh. As Mariane says, 'When the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed name first came up, the obvious questions were what was his link to Omar Sheikh and what was his link to ISI? Those are the questions we have to answer now, and there are more. What is the direct link between Omar Sheikh and 9/11? Is Omar Sheikh a main player in 9/11? Should there be more charges against him?....'... the news that Mohammed killed Pearl doesn't explain his motive. What would make al-Qaida target the Wall Street Journal's Asian bureau chief? There are several theories. Robert Baer, a former case officer with the CIA's directorate of operations, believes Pearl had begun to pursue Mohammed as a story for the Journal. Baer says Pearl called him the day after the Sept. 11 attack to talk about possible culprits, and that he told the reporter about Mohammed's role as a key aide to bin Laden going back to 1997. He also told Pearl, Baer says, that the government of Qatar protected Mohammed and would have information about his activities. After Danny's murder, Baer said that an official in the Qatar government told him that Danny had called the Foreign Ministry for information about Mohammed.... the immediate questions that need to be answered are in Pakistan. And getting straight answers from anyone in ISI -- protected by proxies in the press -- will be difficult.... After Danny originally went missing, Mariane and I hunted through the house looking for clues. I found a photo on Danny's computer of us, shortly after we all met up in Pakistan. He had a particularly befuddled look on his face, and had created an appropriate caption for the photo: 'Clueless in Karachi.' It turned out to be an apt description of all of us in Karachi, and of the complicated nature of relationships between Muslim extremists and their political and financial sponsors that Danny stumbled into. That is what must be explored further in order to learn who planned, financed and pulled off the kidnapping and murder of Danny. Even with the apparent admission of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the job is not done."
Asra Nomani, who was living with Daniel Pearl and his wife Mariane at the time of his death
Who really killed Danny Pearl?
Salon.com, 22 October 2003

"When he was abducted, Pearl was thought to have been investigating Richard Reid, the British shoe- bomber. But the disclosure of Mohammed’s involvement suggests Pearl may have been trailing the Al-Qaeda operations chief."
9/11 mastermind killed Daniel Pearl
Sunday Times, 19 December 2004

"While the [911] commission documents the high-level ties that al-Qaida had with Pakistan's government agencies, it has failed to confirm or refute persistent, credible reports connecting key Pakistan government officials to the 9/11 attacks.... While 9/11 commission co-chairman Thomas Kean considers the panel's report definitive, it has a glaring hole with the money trail. The panel says the attacks cost somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to execute. Where did the money come from? Despite reports of ISI links, the report says al-Qaida had many sources of funding, but the commission could not find out where the 9/11 funds originated. On Oct. 9, 2001, the Pakistani daily Dawn reported the ISI director-general, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, was fired after FBI investigators established a link between him and a $100,000 wire transfer to 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in the summer of 2000. This report was also carried by the Wall Street Journal. Paul Sperry, Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily.com, wrote in his Jan. 30, 2002, column that Dennis Lormel, who until the end of 2003 led the FBI's terrorist finance investigations, confirmed this transaction.... On May 15, 2003, a group of 9/11 victims' relatives met with the commission co-chairman Thomas Kean and other senior staff and submitted a list of questions, which included a mention of Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed. A June 17, 2004, the New York Times reported that Lorie Van Auken, whose husband died in the World Trade Center, was 'irate' that the June 16 commission narrative of the 9/11 attacks did not even mention the allegation about Ahmed's role in the $100,000 transfer to Mohammed Atta. Clearly, the ISI link is no mere conspiracy theory."
Outside View: 9/11 report sidesteps Pakistan
United Press International, 26 July 2004

"Three months before the release of the 9/11 Commission report, commission chief of staff Phil Zelikow asked a prominent Pakistani whether he could 'fill in the gaps about what was happening behind the scenes in Pakistan in the period immediately preceding the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.' He traveled the length and breadth of Pakistan working his sources, which included many former ranking government officials, retired senior officers and ex-ISI personnel. The requested report arrived in Washington too late to be included in the commission's 567-page report, which mentioned Pakistan 311 times. Even if it had arrived in time, it probably would not have been included.... The unpublished addendum to the 9/11 report stated: (1) Former senior ISI officers knew about the 9/11 plot before the attacks took place...... "
Bin Laden's game plan
United Press International, 1 November 2004

"A top FBI counter-terrorism official told the US Senate governmental affairs committee on Thursday that investigators have 'traced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan.' John S Pistole, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division, however, did not specify how those accounts in Pakistan were funded, or the role of Pakistani elements. The Times of India first reported on October 10, 2001 that India told the US that some $100,000 had been wired to the leader of the hijackers, Mahmud Atta, by British-born terrorist Ahmad Saeed Umar Sheikh. Indian authorities also told the US that the trail led back from Sheikh to the then chief of ISI, Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmad who was subsequently forced to retire by Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. The FBI had been provided with the details, including Sheikh’s mobile numbers. But Pistole’s testimony is silent on these issues.... The FBI has estimated the September 11 attacks cost between $175,000 and $250,000. That money — which paid for flight training, travel and other expenses — flowed to the hijackers through associates in Germany and the United Arab Emirates. Those associates reported to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who managed much of the planning for the attacks from Pakistan, US officials have said. The Bush Administration is being cagey about declassifying 28 secret pages in a recent report on the 9/11 incident which officials say outline connections between Saudi charities, royal family members and terrorism. US authorities are silent about the role some Pakistanis may have played in the conspiracy. The role of Sheikh and Lt Gen Ahmad has yet to see the light of the day. Sheikh, wanted for kidnapping and terrorist conspiracy in India, has since been sentenced to death in Pakistan for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl."
9/11 funds came from Pakistan, says FBI
Times of India, 1 August 2003

"A tidal wave of controversy has been ignited by a leading member of the UK's ruling Labour Party who highlights the role of a Washington-funded ISI chief in sending money to the 9/11 hijackers in the United States..... Many in Europe and the rest of the world find there are too many unanswered questions about 9/11 and Mr Meacher's extraordinary collation will fan the flames of their suspicions."
Pak hand seen in bank-rolling 9/11 hijackers
Decclan Herald (India), 23 July 2004

"Pakistan on Friday denied a report claiming that its intelligence officers knew in advance of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks. The report by Arnaud de Borchgrave, a journalist awarded by the Zia regime for his reporting on the Afghan war, also claimed that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was treated at a military hospital in Peshawar.... Mr de Borchgrave....claimed that on the eve of the publication of its report, the 9/11 commission received a document from Pakistan showing that Pakistani intelligence officers knew in advance of the attacks.... The document, according to the report, claimed that Pakistani intelligence had been actively facilitating the relocation of Al Qaeda from Afghanistan to Pakistan and that some serving and retired intelligence officers were still helping the network. Such officers, the report said, had provided money and directions to militant groups, specially the Arab hijackers of 9/11 from Al Qaeda. The document, apparently, failed to impress the authors of the commission's report....."
'Pakistan had no hint of 9/11 attacks'
Dawn (Pakistan), 24 July 2004

"[Pakistan's] ISI Chief Lt-Gen. [Ahmad] Mahmoud's week-long presence [immediately before 911] in Washington has triggered speculation about the agenda of his mysterious meetings at the Pentagon and National Security Council. Officially, he is on a routine visit in return to CIA Director George Tenet's earlier visit to Islamabad. Official sources confirm that he met Tenet this week. He also held long parleys with unspecified officials at the White House and the Pentagon....... What added interest to his visit is the history of such visits. Last time Ziauddin Butt, Mahmoud's predecessor, was here, during Nawaz Sharif's government, the domestic politics turned topsy-turvy within days."
ISI chief's parleys continue in US
The News (Pakistan), 10 September 2001

"Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, Director of Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, is quite possibly the most taboo suspect of all 9/11 suspects. It was reported in early October 2001 that Mahmood ordered Saeed Sheikh to send $100,000 to hijacker Mohamed Atta. Since then hardly a word has been said about this stunning report, and in fact this once very powerful man appears to have completely disappeared from view. In December 2002, Senator Bob Graham, head of the Congressional 9/11 inquiry and thus privy to much information still not publicly released, said he was 'surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the [9/11] terrorists in the United States. ... It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now.' [PBS Newshour, 12/11/02] Is he referring to Pakistan and the role of Mahmood, a man Graham just happened to be discussing bin Laden with in Washington DC as the 9/11 attacks were happening? If Mahmood had a role in 9/11, this would not only strongly suggest that the rest of the Pakistani government had foreknowledge, but it would also raise curious questions about who else knew, in the US, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. Mahmood seems to be involved in a number of important but obscure meetings before, during and after 9/11.... [During] September 4-11, 2001: ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed [visited] Washington for the second time (see April 4, 2000). On September 10, a Pakistani newspaper reports on his trip so far. It says his visit has 'triggered speculation about the agenda of his mysterious meetings at the Pentagon and National Security Council' as well as meetings with CIA Director Tenet, unspecified officials at the White House and the Pentagon, and his 'most important meeting' with Mark Grossman, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. The article suggests that 'of course, Osama bin Laden' could be the focus of some discussions. Prophetically, the article adds, 'What added interest to his visit is the history of such visits. Last time [his] predecessor was [in Washington], the domestic [Pakistani] politics turned topsy-turvy within days.' [The News, 9/10/01] This is a reference to the Musharraf coup just after a ISI Director's visit (see October 12, 1999). Mahmood is meeting in Washington when the 9/11 attacks begin (see September 11, 2001 (H)), and extends his stay until September 16 (see September 11-16, 2001)...... October 7, 2001: ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed is replaced in the face of US pressure after links are discovered between him, Saeed Sheikh and the funding of the 9/11 attacks. Mahmood instructed Saeed to transfer $100,000 into hijacker Mohamed Atta's bank account prior to 9/11. This is according to Indian intelligence, which claims the FBI has privately confirmed the story. [Press Trust of India, 10/8/01, Times of India, 10/9/01, India Today, 10/15/01, Daily Excelsior, 10/18/01] The story is not widely reported in Western countries, though it makes the Wall Street Journal. [Australian, 10/10/01, AFP, 10/10/01, Wall Street Journal, 10/10/01] It is reported in Pakistan as well. [Dawn, 10/8/01] The Northern Alliance also repeats the claim in late October. [FNS, 10/31/01] In Western countries, the usual explanation is that Mahmood is fired for being too close to the Taliban. [London Times, 10/9/01, Guardian, 10/9/01] The Times of India reports that Indian intelligence helped the FBI discover the link, and says: 'A direct link between the ISI and the WTC attack could have enormous repercussions. The US cannot but suspect whether or not there were other senior Pakistani Army commanders who were in the know of things. Evidence of a larger conspiracy could shake US confidence in Pakistan's ability to participate in the anti-terrorism coalition.' [Times of India, 10/9/01] There is evidence some ISI officers may have known of a plan to destroy the WTC as early as mid-1999 (see July 14, 1999). Two other ISI leaders, Lt. Gen. Mohammed Aziz Khan and Chief of General Staff Mohammed Yousuf, are sidelined on the same day as Mahmood. [Fox News, 10/8/01] Saeed had been working under Khan (see January 1, 2000-September 11, 2001). The firings are said to have purged the ISI of its fundamentalists. But according to one diplomat: 'To remove the top two or three doesn't matter at all. The philosophy remains... [The ISI is] a parallel government of its own. If you go through the officer list, almost all of the ISI regulars would say, of the Taliban, ‘They are my boys.’' [New Yorker, 10/29/01] It is believed Mahmood has been living under virtual house arrest in Pakistan ever since (which would seem to imply more than just a difference of opinion over the Taliban), but no charges have been brought against him, and there is no evidence the US has asked to question him. [Asia Times, 1/5/02] He also has refused to speak to reporters since being fired [AP, 2/21/02], and outside India and Pakistan, the story has only been mentioned a couple times in the media since (see [Sunday Herald, 2/24/02, London Times, 4/21/02]). [Also now reported in the Guardian, Fight Smart Ed] If Mahmood helped fund the 9/11 attacks, what did President Musharraf know about it?"
ISI Director Mahmood Ahmed
Centre For Cooperative Research

"The US Administration has called for 'quiet' investigations by America’s intelligence establishment in close cooperation with its allies outside the United States of a set of reports, all accusing Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of having played its role while facilitating the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Even as Pakistan President and military ruler, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, has tried to divert Washington’s attention by sacking the ISI chief, Gen. Mehmood Ahmed, America’s FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) seem determined to investigate the allegations against the ISI. The FBI investigators have come across what has been termed as the 'most damaging evidence' vis-�-vis the former ISI chief’s connection with Omar Sheikh, the Pakistan-born British national, who was released by the Government of India along with Masood Azhar and Mushtaq Zargar towards the end of 1999 to seek the freedom of passengers of the hijacked plane of Indian Airlines at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The FBI investigators are reported to have conceded that India’s inputs proved to be 'vital'. A highly-placed intelligence source told EXCELSIOR that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) provided the critical lead, which was vigorously pursued by the FBI investigators in Pakistan for more than 10 days until the cat was out of the bag. The critical lead, the source elaborated, was the cellphone number of Omar Sheikh. In the initial stages, America’s intelligence establishment was found having certain reservations on India’s inputs. The scenario changed after the RAW made available Omar Sheikh’s cellphone number-0300 94587772. The FBI’s examination of the hard disk of the cellphone company Omar Sheikh had subscribed to led to the discovery of the 'link' between him and the deposed chief of the Pakistani ISI, Gen. Mehmood Ahmed. And as the FBI investigators delved deep, sensational information surfaced with regard to the transfer of 100,000 dollars to Mohammed Atta, one of the Kamikaze pilots who flew his Boeing into the World Trade Centre. Gen. Mehmood Ahmed, the FBI investigators found, fully knew about the transfer of money to Atta.... Omar Sheikh languished in the Meerut district jail in Uttar Pradesh for over three years in a TADA case before he was moved to Delhi’s Tihar Jail, and eventually released. The FBI investigators are presently collecting every strand of information on Omar Sheikh. Omar was seen in Karachi a fortnight before the September 11 strikes. America’s intelligence community as well as India’s RAW treat him as the 'crucial link' in the probe into the September 11 attacks. He has gone underground since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon."
FBI, CIA benefit from RAW's inputs
Daily Excelsior (India), 18 October 2001

"Lt General (r) Mahmood Ahmad, who was Rawalpindi Corps commander when the Nawaz Sharif government was overthrown in a military coup on October 12, 1999, made his first public appearance here on Wednesday in his capacity as the managing director (MD) of Fauji Fertilizer Company (FFC) Limited and observed that no one had 'blessed' him the post of MD except God. Mr Ahmad, who retired at the end of 2001 after being superseded, appeared before a select group of journalists, mainly from the English newspapers, but refused to answer questions on the 1999 coup or the Taliban regime. 'Let mystery remain a mystery,' he responded when asked about events in Pakistan and Afghanistan before the war to displace the Taliban regime.... He also refused to talk about rumours of his detention following his being superseded, and instead tried to steer the discussion to the financial achievements of the FFC. He said the company was one of the top three in the Karachi Stock Exchange thanks to the hard work and dedication of a couple of expert officials and efficient management. 'We have made the country self-sufficient in Urea production and nuclear technology,' he said."
Lt-Gen Mahmood made MD of FFC
Daily Times, 1 May 2003

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