Mahmud Ahmed

Lieutenant General
Mahmud Ahmed
HI(M)
Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed HI(M)
Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence
	In office; 20 October 1999 – 7 October 2001
President	Rafiq Tarar; Pervaiz Musharraf
Preceded by	Gen. Ziauddin Butt
Succeeded by	Lt-Gen. Ehsan ul Haq
Commander Rawalpindi Corps
	In office; 25 October 1998 – 20 October 1999
President	Rafiq Tarar
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Lt-Gen. Saleem Haider
Succeeded by	Lt-Gen. Jamshed Gulzar Kiani
President of the National Defence University
	In office; 5 June 1998 – 25 October 1998
President	Rafiq Tarar
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Lt-Gen. Maqbool Ahmad
Succeeded by	Lt-Gen. Salah ul Din Tirmazi
Personal details
Born	Mahmud Ahmed; c. 1944 (age 81–82); 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	Director General of the ISI; Corps of Artillery; X Corps in Rawalpindi; DG Military Intelligence; 23rd Infantry Division
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistan War of 1965; Indo-Pakistan War of 1971; Kargil War; India-Pakistan Standoff of 2001; War in Afghanistan
Awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)

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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.

He commanded the X Corps against the Indian Army during the Kargil War in Indian-administered Kashmir in 1999, and was identified as one of the four army generals who helped initiate the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état against the elected civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. 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 helping Gen. Pervez Musharraf's usurp power from the civilian government, 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.