NEW DELHI: In a big improvement, the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC) on Thursday formally confirmed the demise of Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, a founding member of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the suspected planner of the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults.
Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, founding member of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and deputy to Hafiz Saeed is ‘Confirmed Deceased’ pic.twitter.com/wFLKZAnOhw
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Demise Due To Cardiac Arrest
Bhuttavi, who served because the deputy to Hafiz Saeed, succumbed to a cardiac arrest in Might 2023 whereas within the custody of the Pakistan authorities within the Punjab province. His demise marks the top of an period for one of many key perpetrators of the notorious 2008 assaults.
A UN Designated Terrorist
The united states had designated Bhuttavi as a terrorist on account of his intensive involvement in financing, planning, facilitating, getting ready, or perpetrating acts for LeT. In accordance with a abstract by the UN committee, he was not solely a founding member of LeT but in addition assumed the position of the performing emir of each LeT and JuD throughout Hafiz Saeed’s detentions.
Background And Involvement In Terrorism
Born in August 1946 in Pattoki, Kasur district of Punjab, Bhuttavi performed a pivotal position as the pinnacle of 150 JuD seminaries in Pakistan. His native city, Dipalpur in Okara district, holds significance as it’s the hometown of Ajmal Kasab, the lone captured LeT attacker through the Mumbai assaults.
Lashkar-E-Taiba: A Temporary Overview
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) got here into existence in 1990, based mostly in Pakistan, with a major goal of opposing ‘Indian management over Jammu and Kashmir.’ Initially fashioned because the army wing of the Pakistani Islamist group Markaz-ad-Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI) by Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, LeT later purportedly separated from MDI in 2002.
Initially resisting the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, LeT redirected its focus to Jammu and Kashmir within the early 1990s. Recognized for conducting deadly assaults towards Indian officers, troops, and civilians, the group has earned a terrorist designation from quite a few nations.
This affirmation of Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi’s demise underscores a big chapter within the combat towards terrorism, notably within the context of LeT’s historic actions and its position within the tragic occasions of 26/11.
