LeT terrorist who plotted RSS HQ, IISc, CRPF attacks killed in Sindh

Razaullah Nizamani Khalid, alias Abu Saifullah, a key terrorist associated with the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), has been killed in Pakistan’s Sindh province, agencies quoting news reports said on Sunday.

Saifullah, who played the central role in orchestrating several high-profile terror incidents in India, was attacked by “unknown assailants”, the reports said.

Saifullah had been provided security by the Pakistan government. He was gunned down near a crossing after he left his residence at Matli in Sindh on Sunday afternoon, the reports said.

Khalid used to head the terror operations of LeT from Nepal in early 2000 and had many aliases, including Vinode Kumar, Mohammed Salim and Razaullah.

Over a span of five years from 2001, Saifullah orchestrated three major attacks in India.

These included the assault on a CRPF camp in Rampur in 2001, the Indian Science Congress attack in Bengaluru in 2005, and the 2006 attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters in Nagpur.

From mid-2000, Khalid was the incharge of the Nepal module of LeT, responsible for the recruitment of cadres, providing financial and logistic support and facilitating the movement of LeT operatives across the Indo-Nepal border.

Khalid was working closely with LeT’s so-called “launching commanders” — Azam Cheema, alias Babaji, and Yaqoob, LeT’s chief accountant. Khalid left Nepal and returned to Pakistan after Indian security agencies exposed the module.

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