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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 passed his FSc and stood first in whole Punjab.

Afterwards he was again enrolled in GCU 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.