Amir Hamza, a founding member of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has been shot by unknown gunmen in Lahore. Hamza suffered bullet accidents in an assault by motorcycle-borne unidentified gunmen on Thursday, police mentioned. He is at the moment being handled in a hospital.
In the previous two to a few years, a big variety of India-designated “most-wanted” terrorists and high-ranking commanders of teams like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) have been eradicated in Pakistan or Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The eliminations have typically been attributed by native stories to “unidentified gunmen” or mysterious circumstances.
Terrorists Killed By “Unknown Gunmen”
Just final month, Muhammad Tahir Anwar died in Pakistan, reportedly beneath mysterious circumstances. He was Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar’s elder brother. He performed a key function inside Jaish-e-Mohammed and was actively concerned within the terror outfit’s operations.
In March final 12 months, a high Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Abu Qatal or Qatal Sindhi, was additionally killed by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan’s Jhelum Sindh. He was an in depth aide to the mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror assault, Hafiz Saeed. He was allegedly the mastermind behind the Reasi assault in 2024 in Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 9 individuals and injured 33 others.
The sample of such killings grew to become evident in 2023, following the elimination of seven terrorists over a span of seven months.
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One of the seven eliminations of those was Paramjit Singh Panjwar, chief of the Khalistan Commando Force, who had lengthy been concerned in arms smuggling, drug trafficking, and extremist operations. On May 6, 2023, whereas taking a routine stroll in Lahore’s Johar Town, two motorcycle-borne assailants approached and shot him useless.
“Unknown men” killed Mufti Qaiser Farooq, one other shut affiliate of Hafiz Saeed, in Karachi. The 30-year-old was shot close to a spiritual establishment within the Samanabad space in October 2023. Farooq suffered bullet wounds within the again and died throughout remedy in a hospital.
Shahid Latif, the alleged mastermind of the 2016 Pathankot terror assault, was shot useless by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan’s Sialkot in October 2023. The 54-year-old was on the record of India’s ‘most-wanted terrorists’.
Khwaja Shahid, also called Mia Mujahid, a high-ranking commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, was discovered beheaded close to the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in November 2023. He was reportedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from his house within the Neelum Valley a couple of days earlier than his demise. His decapitated physique confirmed indicators of extreme torture.
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Akram Khan Ghazi, a high commander of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was shot useless in November 2023 by unidentified attackers on bikes. Ghazi was a key determine within the LeT recruitment cell and was identified for his anti-India speeches and radicalising youth for infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir.
Before the killings in 2023, Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, the deadliest of the 5 hijackers of the IC-814 Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Delhi in 1999, was shot useless in Pakistan’s Karachi in March 2022. The Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, dwelling beneath the false id “Zahid Akhund” for a few years, was shot twice within the head by unidentified gunmen at point-blank vary in Karachi’s Akhtar Colony on March 1.
