[1] He also led a famous intelligence operation named Midnight Jackals,[2] which thwarted a military coup attempt of the elected PPP government in 1990.

He resigned from the PPP in 2007 in protest against political arrangements (In famous NRO deal) of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians with Gen. Musharaf.

[4] Masood grew up in a typical armed forces household with strict discipline, complete with a dinner bell at the dining table.

Formal dining engagements involving the royalty and influential people of Pakistan, Britain and India were a regular feature at the Sharif residence in Karachi and Delhi.

He was arrested by the Farooq Leghari government in 1996 and imprisoned on charges of corruption as well as allegations which included widespread wiretapping of opposition politicians, judges and senators.

[12] Masood Sharif spoke at the 2009 World Economic Form on East Asia, held in Seoul, Korea.