Imtymed

Imtiaz Ahmed was born into a Kashmiri family[12] in Gujranwala, Punjab in British India on 4 June 1935, according to the Indian author, P.C. Joshi.:33[5] After his matriculation, he joined the Pakistan Army and entered in the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, and decided to attend the Military College of Engineering in Risalpur in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.:131[13] He graduated with B.S. in civil engineering, and earned commission as 2nd-Lt. in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers in 1960.:33[5]:131[13]

His career is mostly spent in the Corps of Engineers, and served on the combat engineering formations during the second war with India in 1965 and third war with India in 1971.:35–36[5] After 1971, Ahmed was directed to attend the staff course at the Command and Staff College in Quetta.:131[13]

Due to his cunningness and the greenish-eye feline colors, Ahmed was famously known by his codename in the ISI as "billa" (the male cat).:30[14]

In the late 1970s, he joined the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as a security analyst and remained associated with the country's intelligence community for many years.:contents[3] In 1979, Major Ahmed was posted on a security detail assignment on the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP), involved in running the background checks and providing covert security to the technicians working on the power plant.[15] In 1979, he became aware of an American CIA mole working as an engineer who was trying to seek security details on the commercial nuclear power plant for the sabotage purposes.[15]

After thoroughly running the background checks, Ahmad identified the suspected mole and eventually led a sting operation that successfully resulted in an arrest and conviction of a local Pakistani CIA agent, declaration of a few undercover CIA agents, and U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Consulate General in Karachi as personae non gratae and their return to the United States.