Lashkar-e-Taiba's most wanted terrorist, Abu Qatal, was shot dead in Pakistan on Saturday night.
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00:00Lashkar-e-Taiba's most wanted terrorist Abu Qatal was murdered in Pakistan on Saturday night.
00:05Abu Qatal was a close aide of 26-11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
00:10He was the mastermind behind the 2023 Rajouri terror attack and Riasi bus attack.
00:15The attack targeted a bus carrying pilgrims returning from the Shivkhori temple
00:19in Jammu and Kashmir's Riasi district.
00:2126-11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed appointed Abu Qatal as Lashkar's chief operational commander.
00:27The NIHR treated five accused, including three Pakistan-based
00:30handlers of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit in the Rajouri attacks case.
00:57He was seen as a real killer. He was involved in multiple terror attacks in India.
01:03He had travelled to India, stayed in India and is a charge-sheeted terrorist.
01:07The National Investigation Agency had charge-sheeted him
01:11in connection with the Rajouri terror attack in January of 2023.
01:17Remember when a busload of pilgrims were targeted and
01:20little children were massacred and killed in that terror attack along with their families?
01:25That's when these Pakistani terrorists had targeted a bus of pilgrims
01:29that was travelling through the Jammu-Rajouri area.
01:33He's been involved in a number of other terror attacks in India.
01:36He actually had travelled from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir
01:41to Poonch and Rajouri areas and had been active quite here.
01:45Then when he went back to Pakistan, he was seen as one of the senior Lashkar-e-Taiba
01:49commanders and a very close aide of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed.
01:52In fact, there was some speculation that he'd had either a meeting with Hafiz Saeed
01:58or had been travelling with Hafiz Saeed when this incident had taken place and he was returning.
02:04Now, the area where this attack has taken place by these unknown gunmen
02:08is in Mangla. It's near Jhelum on the Jhelum bypass, the Mangla bypass in Pakistan.
02:16This is not Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. This is the heart of Pakistan's Punjab
02:21where this has taken place and this is not the first such incident.
02:25So, while his Toyota pickup was travelling and with a convoy, with protection,
02:30that's when unknown gunmen, as they're known as in Pakistan's parlance,
02:35na maloom afraad. Now, na maloom afraad were on motorcycles.
02:39They came on either side of the Toyota pickup, resorted to indiscriminate firing
02:44in which Abu Qatil was killed, a person travelling with him was killed,
02:49his bodyguard was injured and now there are images in Pakistan that show that the entire
02:55road has been cordoned off by the Pakistani police forces and the bodies have been taken
03:01to an undisclosed location. And this isn't the first time something like this has happened,
03:06Chetna. So, it's a major, major development that's taking place.
03:09Right. Thanks Gaurav for bringing in those details on the story.