Kochi: Most wanted terrorist, Abu Qatal, of outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was killed in Pakistan on Saturday night, media reports said.
Unidentified gunmen killed Qatal, who is the Nephew of Hafiz Saeed who co-founded LeT, was involved in multiple attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. A close aide of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, Qatal was involved in attacking pilgrims returning from the Shiv Khori temple in Jammu and Kashmir.
The National Investigation Agency had chargesheeted Qatal in the 2023 Rajouri attack that killed seven people, including two children and critically injured many.
LeT, is a Pakistani Islamist Salafi jihadist organisation. It was founded in the mid eighties by several Islamist mujahideen funded by Osama bin Laden during the Soviet–Afghan War.
It has been designated a terrorist group by numerous countries including Pakistan.
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