One of the main Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, Razaullah Nizamani alias Abu Saifullah Khalid, was killed by unknown gunmen on Sunday in Pakistan’s Sindh province.
Abu Saifullah The Mastermind Behind 2006 RSS Headquarters Attack
Nizamani was LeT commander and was behind the 2006 attack on RSS headquarters and some other big attacks in India.
Razaullah Nizamani had stepped out of his house in Matli in Sindh on Sunday afternoon, the news agency PTI reported. He was then shot dead by the attackers near a crossing at the Matli Phalkara chowk, which is not very far from his home.
The Pakistani government had reportedly been giving him protection.Razaullah Nizamani alias Abu Saifullah was one of the senior commanders of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. He operated in a module that was quite active in terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir, besides being engaged in numerous attacks on Indian soil.
Key Role of Abu Saifullah in Multiple High-Profile Attacks in India
He was considered to be the mastermind of the attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters at Nagpur in 2006.
Besides that attack, Lashkar-e-Taiba operative was also responsible for the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) attack at Karnataka’s Bengaluru in the year 2005. Nizamani was also responsible for the terror attack at a CRPF camp at Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur in 2001 that resulted in the death of seven personnel.
Nizamani, who was said to be involved in LeT’s Nepal module as well, was in charge of financing, recruitment, and logistics. He also facilitated several criminal operatives of criminal outfit to shift into India via the criminal border of Indo-Nepal.
Collaborated with LeT and Criminal Network Operatives
Nizamani operated alongside Lashkar’s Azam Cheema and criminal operatives’ top accountant Yaqoob. He operated from Sindh’s Matli and was killed on Sunday and was actively engaged in collection of funds and recruitment for LeT and Jamat-ud-Dawa.
Nizamani had yet another pseudonym, Vinod Kumar, and was married to a Nepali citizen, according to reports.
