With Pakistan’s financial aid, Lashkar-e-Taiba rebuilding its Markaz Taiba headquarters destroyed in Indian air strike

The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group is rebuilding its headquarters, Markaz Taiba, at Muridke in Pakistan's Punjab at full throttle months after it was devastated in an Indian air strike, claimed an Indian intelligence dossier.

The LeT, using heavy machinery, has completely razed the damaged structures and started reconstruction of the building.

The reconstruction, which the group plans to complete before February 5, 2026, when its annual jihad convention is conducted, is being carried out under the direct supervision of senior LeT commanders Maulana Abu Zar and Yunus Shah Bukhari, according to a News 18 report.

Citing the intelligence dossier, the report said, the LeT had temporarily relocated its cadres and programmes to alternate facilities after India’s attack to ensure its training pipelines remained uninterrupted.

The rebuilding of the terror infrastructure is being done with the financial assistance from Islamabad. In August, the terror group received PKR 4 crore (around Rs 1.25 crore) from the Pakistani government as seed money, though the total cost of restoration is likely to exceed PKR 15 crore.

The dossier also revealed that the LeT has launched a fundraising drive under humanitarian guise. The group has started a “flood relief” campaign, a strategy it had tried at the time of the devastating earthquake in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 2005.

According to reports, around 80 per cent of the humanitarian aid it received then was diverted to build terror infrastructure.

India carried out air strikes in nine terrorist hubs in Pakistan and PoK on May 7 in retaliation to the Pahalgam terrorist attack in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed.

India’s strike sparked a brief military confrontation between the neighbouring countries before a ceasefire was reached on May 10.