Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Saifullah Khalid, who planned attacks in Nagpur, Rampur, and Bangalore, was living under a false identity in Nepal before relocating to Pakistan’s Sindh province, where he was killed.
A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, Saifullah Khalid, accused of orchestrating several high-profile terror attacks in India, has been killed in Pakistan’s Sindh province, sources told India Today TV on Sunday. He was attacked by some unknown assailants in Matli city of Badin district in Shind.
According to sources, Abu Saifullah had been given strict instructions by the organisation to limit his movements. He had also been provided security. However, earlier today, as he stepped out of his house in the city of Matli, he was targeted and shot dead at a nearby intersection.
Khalid was a key conspirator in three major attacks: the 2005 Indian Science Congress (ISC) attack in Bangalore, the 2006 attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur and the 2008 CRPF camp assault in Rampur.
These attacks, carried out over a span of three years, claimed several lives and marked a massive escalation in LeT’s operations on Indian soil.
Operating under the alias “Vinode Kumar,” Khalid was based in Nepal for several years, where he lived under a false identity and married a local woman, Nagma Banu.
From Nepal, he is believed to have coordinated activities for LeT, maintaining a low profile while playing a crucial role in recruitment and logistics.
More recently, Khalid had shifted his base to Matli in the Badin district of Sindh province in Pakistan. There, he continued working for Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-proscribed Pakistani terrorist group and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa, primarily focusing on recruitment and fund collection for terror operations.
Last week, three more Lashkar terrorists, including ‘Operations Commander’ Shahid Kuttay, were killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
Kuttay, and the other two, Adnan Shafi, a resident of the Vanduna Melhura area of Shopian, and Ahsan ul Haq Sheikh, a resident of Murran area of the neighbouring Pulwama district, were killed in the Shukroo Keller area. Two AK series rifles, a large quantity of ammunition, grenades, and other war-like stores were found in their possession.