Major Masood Sharif Khan Khattak {Urdu: مسعود شریف خان خٹک); born 5 June 1950 in the city of Karak- Karak, West Pakistan is a civilian intelligence officer and the first and former Director General of the Intelligence Bureau (I.B). He has served as the Vice-President of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians(PPPP) under the leadership of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto. He also led a famous intelligence operation named Midnight Jackals, which thwarted a military coupe attempt of the elected PPP government in 1990. He was imprisoned in 1996 by the government of Farooq Leghari where he was charged with launching widespread wiretapping against government officials.