Life and Education
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood was born in Amritsar, British Punjab, sometime in either 1940 or 1939. After the Indian partition and the independence of Pakistan in 1947, his parents escaped from pogroms and genocide in India to West-Pakistan. Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood's father, Chaudhry Sharif Khan, was a local village leader (Numberdar) and put all his income to educate his eldest son who stood first in his High school and stand in 3rd position in the Punjab Matric Board. The government awarded him the scholarship and his father sent him to Government College University, Lahore (GCU) where he was enrolled in Department of Physics to study applied physics in 1958. However, after spending a semester, Mahmood made a transfer to the University of Engineering and Technology of Lahore (UET Lahore). At UET, Mahmood enrolled in Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology to study Electrical engineering. Mahmood studied with Parvez Butt at UET, and in 1962, Mahmood graduated with B.Eng. with Honors in Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore.
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood joined the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) as an electrical engineer in 1964. He was sent to Electronics Division (ED) and was one of the pioneering member there. While in PAEC, Mahmood went to Army Recruiting Center (ARC) to join the Pakistan Army, and showed his willingness to participate in Indo-Pakistan 1965 September war, but was unable to volunteer. Dr. I. H. Usmani, Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, used his influence in the Government that prevented Mahmood to join the war. Instead, Usmani sent Mahmood to join the Nuclear Physics Group working under dr. Naeem Ahmad Khan.
In 1967, he went to the United Kingdom with a PAEC scholarship, and attended the University of Manchester, where he studied for his double masters degree in Nuclear Engineering and Control System Engineering. In 1969, he received his double M.Sc. in control system engineering and nuclear engineering in from University of Manchester. He, then, specialised and gained expertise in nuclear power engineering in 1969 from the Nuclear Technology Education Consortium, Manchester, United Kingdom.
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