One of the top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) handlers, Abdul Wahid Kumbho, was killed in a gunfight before infamous LeT terrorist Razaullah Nizamani Khalid, alias Abu Saifullah Khalid, was gunned down by terrorists in Sindh province on Sunday, local sources reported on Monday.
They also admitted that the so-called "targeted killings" of LeT militants in various regions of Pakistan have risen following India's decisive 'Operation Sindoor,' which destroyed various terror hubs deep within Pakistan last month.
Whereas Nizamani had hatched a number of large terror strikes in India prior to his relocation to Nepal and finally settling in Sindh province with Pakistani security forces offering complete security to him, Kumbho, who had presented himself as a social activist, was associated with LeT's political wing, Milli Muslim League (MML). He was gunned down by armed individuals ahead of Nizamani in the same Matli region of the Badin district of Pakistan's Sindh province.
"Abdul Wahid Kumbho was shot dead on the spot, and another individual named Tahir was hurt. Police officials took into custody two individuals named Ghulam Shabir and Rafaqat, who belong to the Sindh nationalist party Sindh Desh Revolution Army," local agencies reported.
They said that the Sindh Desh Revolution Army is a Sindhi nationalist group that has an extensive influence in the heart of the province. The group was divided into numerous factions, one of them being headed by Shafi Burfat, who is said to be residing in Afghanistan.
"Some other factions of the group are linked directly with the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) as well," added a local source.
The LeT operatives' targeted killings are not being covered by Pakistani media despite the fact that these have become a major source of irritation for the government as well as the security apparatus of the country.
Islamabad has previously blamed New Delhi for employing Afghanistan-based proxies to conduct targeted killings in various regions of Pakistan.
One group referring to themselves as 'The Resistance Front' (TRF) had taken responsibility for the horrific April 22 Pahalgam attack in India's Jammu and Kashmir that claimed the lives of 26 innocent civilians.
"This group is a cover for the UN-proscribed Pakistani terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Taiba. Worth mentioning is that India had provided inputs regarding the TRF in the half-yearly report submitted by the Monitoring Team of the UN's 1267 Sanctions Committee in May and November 2024, laying bare its role as a cover for Pakistan-based terrorist outfits. Previously too, in December 2023, India had reported to the monitoring team that LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammad were working through small terror groups like the TRF. Pressure from Pakistan to drop allusions to TRF from the April 25 UN Security Council Press Statement is worthy of mention here," Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri had stated during a special Operation Sindoor media briefing in New Delhi this month".
--IANS