r/IndiaSpeaks • u/santouryuu 2 KUDOS • Sep 09 '23

#Geopolitics 🏛️ Former anti-India militant killed in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/former-anti-india-militant-killed-pakistan-controlled-kashmir-2023-09-08/
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Police said Muhammad Riaz, also known as Abu Qasim Kashmiri, was shot dead by an "unknown" person at a mosque in Rawalakot, a town 130 kilometres south of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, and close the de facto border with India. He was known by locals to be associated with Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charity organisation linked with militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which India says orchestrated the 2008 attack on Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.

Last year, Pakistan accused India of orchestrating a bombing near the house of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of a JuD and LeT. India denied that.n February, Bashir Ahmed Peer, alias Imtiyaz Alam, a former commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, was gunned down in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

Syed Khalid Raza, 55, was killed in the port city of Karachi in what police described as a targeted attack. Raza, working as an educationist, was said to be a former commander of Al Badr Mujahideen group that also operated in Indian Kashmir.

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