Mahmud Ahmed

Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed (}}; 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.

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. Provided by Wikipedia