Mahmood, a pioneer in Pakistan's efforts to enrich uranium, a key ingredient for nuclear weapons, and Majid, who worked for Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission until 1999, were detained last month ...

Sources tell EurasiaNet that the two scientists suspected of violating the Official Secret Acts are Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Abdul Majid, both retired nuclear specialists. They have been in ...

Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood, who retired from Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission in 1999, did not tell his family that he had met with bin Laden in 2000 and 2001, his son, Dr. Asim Mehmood, told ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- It didn't seem all that strange to his son when Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood began spending part of his retirement in Afghanistan working on charity projects. But he was ...

Nobody is certain what Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood has been up to in Afghanistan in the past three years–but nobody in the West much likes it either. Mahmood is one of Pakistan’s leading ...

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a former official at the nation’s Atomic Energy Commission, and Abdul Majeed, a former colleague in the nuclear field, were released for the second time after their ...

The men — Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a former top official of Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission, and a former colleague in the nuclear field, Abdul Majeed — were released for the second ...

The mother of a Pakistani nuclear scientist being interrogated by the authorities in Islamabad for possible links with the Taleban has challenged his detention at the Lahore High Court. Fazilat Bibi ...