The killed terrorist was an in depth affiliate of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s chief commander. (Representational)

Jammu:

A terrorist needed in India was shot lifeless by unidentified gunmen inside a mosque in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir on Friday, officers mentioned.

This was the fourth such killing of a high terrorist commander working from throughout the border this 12 months.

Riyaz Ahmad alias Abu Qasim, affiliated with the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba, was one of many important conspirators behind the Dhangri terror assault on January 1.

Seven folks died and 13 have been injured when terrorists struck Dhangri village of Rajouri district and fired indiscriminately. They additionally left behind an improvised explosive machine that went off the next morning.

Originally hailing from the Jammu area, Ahmad exfiltrated throughout the border in 1999. He was thought of because the brains behind the revival of terrorism within the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri, the officers mentioned.

Quoting reviews from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), they mentioned Ahmad was shot lifeless by unidentified gunmen contained in the Al-Qudus mosque within the Rawalakot space throughout pre-dawn prayers.

Ahmad principally operated from the Lashkar-e-Taiba base camp in Muridke however had not too long ago shifted to Rawalakot. He was an in depth affiliate of Sajjad Jaat, the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s chief commander, and likewise taken care of the outfit’s funds, the officers mentioned.

He was the fourth high commander of various terror outfits working from Pakistan to be gunned down this 12 months.

In March, a high commander of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen was shot lifeless by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi.

Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam, who hailed from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, had been residing in Pakistan for greater than 15 years. He was accused of getting Zakir Musa, chief commander of the Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind — an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Kashmir — killed in May 2019.

In February, unidentified gunmen shot lifeless former Al-Badr Mujahideen commander Syed Khalid Raza within the port metropolis of Karachi in what police described as a focused assault.

Aijaz Ahmad Ahangar, a Kashmiri terrorist functioning as a high commander of the worldwide terror group Islamic State, was discovered lifeless — reportedly killed by the Taliban — in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province earlier this 12 months.

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