26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack Plotter & Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Dy Chief Abdul Rehman Makki Dies Of Heart Attack In Lahore |
Mumbai terror attack plotter and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) designated global terrorist Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) deputy chief Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki died on Friday after suspected heart attack in Lahore hospital.
He was the head of LeT’s political affairs department and raised funds for terror activities including $248,000 for LeT training camps and $165,000 for LeT affiliated madrasas through a LeT front organisation charity organisation Al Anfal.
Hafiz Makki was named prime accused along with his brother in la and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed for orchestrating the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack killing 175 and injured 300 by 10 armed Pakistani terrorist armed with Ak47 assault rifles, grenades and arsenal of explosives.
The lone surviving LeT terrorist Ajmal Kasab caught by Mumbai Police had given statement on Makki providing logistic and financial support to the Lashkar cadre.
“We have credible information of terror group lashkar leader Hafiz Makki death in Lahore hospital caused by heart attack,” confirmed a senior intelligence official.
A radical terrorist leader and second-in-command of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), Abdul Rehman Makki was also the ‘Naib Ameer’ of LeT, designated Foreign Terrorist Organization FTO by the US.
He was arrested by the Pakistan government and was put under house arrest in Lahore in 2019 and convicted in 2020 for terror financing and sentenced to life imprisonment.
A total of 23 FIRs had been registered Abdul Rehman Makki at police stations in Lahore, Gujranwala, Multan, Faisalabad and Sargodha after Pakistan was put on global terror grey list by Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The US treasury had announced a bounty of $2 million for information on Makki and $10 million on Saeed.
According to senior intelligence officials, LeT deputy chief Makki was also involved the Red Fort attack, where six (LeT) terrorists had stormed Red Fort on December 22, 2000 and had opened fire on the security forces guarding the Red Fort.
Makki is also accused in the terror attacks on CRPF camp in Srinagar in February 2018, the Baramulla attack in May 2018 and the Bandipora attack in August 2018 and killing of noted Kashmiri journalist and editor in chief of Rising Kahamir, Shujaat Bukhari outside Srinagar press.
