Razaullah Nizamani, alias Abu Saifullah Khalid, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist and the brain behind multiple terrorist attacks in the country, including the 2006 attack on the RSS headquarters, was killed by three unidentified gunmen in Sindh province of Pakistan on Sunday.
According to officials, Khalid, who had donned different identities, including Vinode Kumar, Mohammed Salim and Razaullah, was shot near a crossing at Badni in the afternoon.
Interestingly, Khalid’s killing comes days after India launched airstrikes on several terrorist infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor in retaliation to the Pahalgam attack.
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Khalid is said to be the mastermind of the attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters at Nagpur in 2006. All three terrorists were shot to death in the attack.
He was also involved in the attack on the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, in 2005, in which IIT professor Munish Chandra Puri was killed and several others injured. LeT terrorist Abu Anas, who was chargesheeted in the attack but is still at large, is said to be a close associate of Khalid.
Khalid was also the mastermind of the 2008 attack on a CRPF camp at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh in which seven personnel and a civilian were killed.
He was in charge of the Nepal module of the LeT from 2000 until the Indian security agencies exposed the module. He returned to Pakistan and worked closely with several leaders of LeT and Jamaat-ud-Dawah, including Yusuf Muzammil, LeT commander for Jammu and Kashmir, Muzammil Iqbal Hashmi and Muhammad Yusuf Taibi, reported PTI.
