Top LeT terrorist Saifullah Khalid, the man behind three major attacks in India, killed in Pakistan

Saifullah Khalid, a key terrorist associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has been killed in Pakistan’s Sindh province, a new report said on Sunday.

According to a report by India Today TV, Saifullah Khalid, who was a top mind behind orchestrating several high-profile terror attacks in India, was attacked by ‘unknown assilants’.

Livemint could not independently verify the report of Khan’s death.

Saifullah Khalid responsible for killing many Indians

Over a span of five years between 2001 and 2006, Saifullah Khalid orchestrated three major attacks in India. These include – the CRPF camp assault in Rampur in 2001, the Indian Science Congress (ISC) attack in Bengaluru in 2005, and the 2006 attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur.

The attacks claimed numerous Indian lives and saw a skyrocketing escalation in LeT’s operation on the country’s soil.

Using the alias “Vinode Kumar”, Khalid spent several years living in Nepal. There, he lived under a flase identity and married a woman named Nagma Banu, India Today reported.

Khalid is believed to have coordinated activities for the terror outfit LeT from Nepal. As per the report, he maintained a low profile and apparently played a key role in logistics as well as recruitment of members.

The LeT terrorist had more recently shifted his base to Matli in the Badin district of Sindh province in Pakistan. Following that, he continued to work for Lashkar-e-Taiba as well as its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

His focus in Sindh was on recruitment and fund collections for orchestrating terror attacks.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba (also known as Jama’at-ud-Da’awa) is based in Muridke near Lahore in Pakistan and is headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.

Formed in 1990 in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, the LeT’s first presence in Jammu and Kashmir was recorded in 1993 when 12 Pakistani and Afghan terrorists infiltrated across the Line of Control (LoC) in tandem with the Islami Inquilabi Mahaz, a terrorist outfit then active in the Poonch district.