Army Career
Mahmud Ahmed was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1966 in the 37th PMA Long Course and was the regimental colleague of General Pervez Musharraf in the 16 SP (Self-Propelled) Regiment. In October 1995, when Lt Gen Ali Kuli Khan Khattak was appointed Rawalpindi Corps Commander by then army chief General Abdul Waheed Kakar, Mahmud Ahmed took over from him as DGMI.
Mahmud was promoted to Lieutenant General in June 1998, and posted by General Jehangir Karamat, then COAS, as Commandant, National Defence College. On taking over as the COAS in October, 1998, General Musharraf brought him as Commander X Corps replacing Lieutenant General Salim Haider who proceeded as Corps Commander Mangla. Mahmud was posted, after the coup, as DG ISI, in place of Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt.
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