One of many accused within the Mumbai terror assaults on November 26, 2008, Abdul Rehman Makki handed away because of a coronary heart assault, information company PTI reported on Friday.
Brother-in-law of the alleged mastermind of the assaults, Hafiz Saeed, Hafiz Abdul Rehman Maaki was the deputy chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
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The banned organisation confirmed that he had been ailing for the previous few days and was present process remedy for diabetes at a non-public hospital in Lahore.
“Makki suffered a cardiac arrest early this morning and he breathed his final within the hospital,” a JuD official informed PTI.
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Makki had been sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in reference to a terror financing case in 2020 by an anti terrorism courtroom. Since then, the fear accused had been holding a low profile.
The Pakistan Mutahida Muslim League (PMML) issued a press release saying Makki was an advocate of Pakistan’s ideology.
He was additionally designated as a worldwide terrorist by the United Nations in 2023, subjecting him to an belongings freeze, journey ban and arms embargo.
Final month marked 16 years because the horrific assaults that introduced Mumbai metropolis to a halt. A gaggle of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists got here to Mumbai on December 26, 2008, by way of the ocean route from Pakistan and laid siege to town, leaving greater than 100 individuals useless.
In April, rumours had emerged on social media that alleged mastermind Hafiz Saeed had been hospitalised because of an sickness as properly, reported The Financial Occasions.
In a information convention in January this yr, the Pakistan authorities additionally alleged the position of the Indian state in finishing up killings of terrorists in Pakistan, which the ministry of exterior affairs denied and termed as propaganda.
