Muzaffar Mahmood

Muzaffar Mahmood (born 13 June 1963) is a Pakistani-born Scottish former first-class cricketer. He is the father of Aqsa Mahmood, an ISIS bride.

Mahmood was born at Lahore in June 1963. He emigrated to Scotland as a child in the 1970s, where he was educated at Bellahouston Academy. A club cricketer for Clydesdale, Mahmood was selected to tour Pakistan with the Scottish Select team in November 1989. The following year he represented Scotland in a first-class match against Ireland at Edinburgh, becoming the first Pakistani-born player to represent Scotland.

Mahmood is married to Khalida, with the couple having four children. Their daughter, Aqsa, gained notoriety in 2013 when she fled to Syria to become an ISIS bride, having become radicalised.