Mumbai terror attack plotter and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) deputy chief Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki died on Friday, December 27, in Pakistan after suffering a heart attack, sources told India Today TV.
Makki had been ill for the past few days and was undergoing treatment for high sugar levels at a private hospital in Lahore.
In May 2019, Makki was arrested by the Pakistan government and was put under house arrest in Lahore. In 2020, a Pakistani court also convicted him in cases linked to terror financing and sentenced him to life imprisonment.â€ïIn January 2023, Makki was also declared a “global terrorist” by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Makki was involved in providing financing for the 26/11 Mumbai Terror attacks which left 166 people killed. A total of nine terrorists were also killed in counter-terror operations and one terrorist, Amir Ajmal Kasab, was caught alive.
Apart from the Mumbai terror attack, Makki was also a wanted terrorist in India by the security agencies for his involvement in 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 Fort.
In 2018, Makki’s terror organisation, LeT, was also involved in the killing of senior journalist and editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir newspaper, Shujaat Bukhari, and his two security guards.
While declaring Makki a “global terrorist”, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) had said, “The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida, and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities approved the addition of the entry specified below to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2610 (2021) and adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.”
