Top LeT Commander Akram Khan Ghazi Shot Dead In Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Report

In a recent development, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Akram Khan Ghazi was reportedly assassinated by unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as per media reports.

Pakistani agencies are investigating the possibility of local rivalries and internal strife within LeT as potential motives behind Ghazi's killing, according to Hindustan Times.

Ghazi, believed to be a key member of LeT's central recruitment cell, was allegedly responsible for radicalizing terrorists who later infiltrated into the Kashmir Valley.

This incident marks the third assassination of a top Lashkar operative in recent days and the sixth killing of a senior commander from a terror outfit operating across the border this year.

Notably, Khwaja Shahid, the mastermind behind the 2018 terror attack, was found beheaded near the Line of Control in Pakistan recently.

Riyaz Ahmad, alias Abu Qasim, another key figure linked to the Dhangri terror attack, was shot dead in September inside a mosque in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.

Earlier in March, an unidentified assailant shot dead a top Hizbul Mujahideen commander in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

The wave of targeted attacks also included the killing of Bashir Ahmad Peer, alias Imtiyaz Alam, accused of orchestrating the death of Zakir Musa, chief commander of Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind, an al-Qaeda offshoot in Kashmir, in May 2019.

In February, former Al-Badr Mujahideen commander Syed Khalid Raza was shot dead in Karachi in what police described as a targeted attack.

Additionally, Aijaz Ahmad Ahangar, a Kashmiri terrorist affiliated with the global terror group Islamic State, was reportedly found dead in Afghanistan's Kunar Province earlier this year, allegedly killed by the Taliban.