Nauman Mahmood Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Nauman Mahmood

• Nauman Mahmood was born and raised into a Pashtun family belonging to the Khattak tribe in Rawalpindi, West Pakistan.

• He passed out from the Pakistan Military Academy and was commissioned into an infantry battalion of the Baloch Regiment on 11 September 1987.

• During his early army career, he served in different command, staff, and instructional appointments. He also served as a Brigade Major and later commanded an infantry regiment.

• In 2000s, Nauman took senior field assignments and commanded two infantry brigades, including an infantry brigade in Kashmir and a parachute brigade in South Waziristan.

• In 2011, he became Chief Instructor at the Command and Staff College, Quetta. He served there as an Instructor Class A and Senior Instructor.

• In 2016, he commanded 2 Azad Kashmir Brigade at Rawalakot and later in the same year, he took on senior staff responsibilities.

• In 2017, Nauman became Director General Analysis at Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In this position, he worked on the analysis of development abroad from a national-security perspective and was also involved in external intelligence liaison.

• From 2017 to 2019, he remained in the ISI’s Analysis Directorate.

• In April 2019, Pakistan Army promoted him from major general to lieutenant general. At the time, he also served as Director General Analysis at ISI.

• After his promotion, he was appointed Inspector General of Communications and Information Technology at General Headquarters (GHQ), Rawalpindi.

• In December 2019, Nauman took charge as the Commander of XI Corps (Peshawar Corps).

• As Pesahwar Corps commander. he was involved in the security situation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, including operations and border-security efforts in North Waziristan.

• In 2021, Nauman continued to lead XI Corps as the security situation in Afghanistan changed. The United States also completed its military withdrawal from Afghanistan that year.

• On 23 November 2021, he handed over command of XI Corps to Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed. On the same day, he took charge as President of the National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad. He became the 35th president of the institution.

• While serving as NDU president, he was considered as one of the senior lieutenant generals who could potentially become Pakistan’s next Chief of Army Staff after General Qamar Javed Bajwa‘s retirement, however, he was not selected.

• In April 2023, Nauman Mahmood retired from the Pakistan Army after serving Pakistan Army for more than three decades.

• After retirement, Mahmood remained associated with corporate sector.

• In 2026, Nauman came into news after Pakistan selected him to become the first Secretary General of the Makkah Defence Alliance (Mecca Defence Alliance), a defence arrangement between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye.

• In September 2026, Pakistan officially appointed Nauman Mahmood as the first Secretary General of the Makkah Defence Alliance. As Secretary General he is responsible for helping establish the alliance’s General Secretariat in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and co-ordinating its institutional structure.