New Delhi:
Shahid Latif, one in all India’s most wished terrorists, was right now shot useless by unknown gunmen in Pakistan’s Sialkot. Latif was a key conspirator within the 2016 Pathankot terror assault during which 7 safety personnel had been killed.
Police stated that Latif was killed inside a mosque and they’re nonetheless making an attempt to determine the attackers. One other Jaish terrorist was killed within the assault. The gunmen fled the scene on a bike and cops have launched a probe into the killing.
He had been working as a Maulvi in Sialkot’s Noot Masjid.
Latif, related to the Jaish-e-Mohammed, had from Sialkot guided the 4 terrorists who carried out the fear assault on the Pathankot airbase. Seven Indian Air Drive personnel had been killed when 4 JeM terrorists sneaked into the Pathankot Air Drive Station on January 2, 2016. The encounter went on for 3 days.
He had been arrested in India in 1994 on terror fees. He was then placed on trial and ultimately jailed. He accomplished his sentence in 2010, after which he was deported to Pakistan by way of the Wagah border.
The 41-year-old terrorist was additionally an accused within the hijacking of an Indian Airways airplane in 1999 and had been listed as a wished terrorist by the Indian authorities in 2010.
Latif’s killing is the newest in a collection of assaults on terrorists in Pakistan. Final month, Mufti Qaisar Farooq and Ziaur-Rehman of Lashkar was killed in Karachi.
In February, prime Hizbul commander Bashir Ahmad Peer was killed in Rawalpindi.
There are a number of different terrorist operatives who’ve been killed in Pakistan within the final 18 months.
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