Muzaffar Mahmood (born 13 June 1963) is a

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-born

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former first-class

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er. He is the father of Aqsa Mahmood, an

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. Mahmood was born at

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in June 1963. He emigrated to Scotland as a child in the 1970s, where he was educated at

Bellahouston Academy Bellahouston Academy is a non-denominational state-run secondary school in Bellahouston, south-west Glasgow, Scotland. History Bellahouston Academy first opened in 1876 on Paisley Road West as a private school run by Alexander Sim, It was ...

. A

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er for Clydesdale, Mahmood was selected to tour Pakistan with the Scottish Select team in November 1989. The following year he represented

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in a

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against

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, becoming the first Pakistani-born player to represent Scotland. Playing as an

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bowler in the Scottish team, he took three wickets in Ireland's first innings and the only wicket to fall in their second innings, finishing with match figures of 4 for 104. Mahmood is married to Khalida, with the couple having four children. Their daughter,

Aqsa Al-Aqsa (; ) or al-Masjid al-Aqṣā () and also is the compound of Islamic religious buildings that sit atop the Temple Mount, also known as the Haram al-Sharif, in the Old City (Jerusalem), Old City of Jerusalem, including the Dome of the R ...

, gained notoriety in 2013 when she fled to Syria to become an

, having become radicalised. As of , Aqsa is presumed to have been killed in fighting in February 2019 in the Syrian civil war.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mahmood, Muzaffar 1963 births Living people Cricketers from Lahore Pakistani emigrants to Scotland People educated at Bellahouston Academy Scottish cricketers British Asian cricketers British people of Pakistani descent