26/11 Mumbai terror attack's alleged mastermind Hafiz Saeed's brother-in-law and the deputy chief of Pakistan-based terror outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki died of a heart attack in Lahore on Friday.
As per media reports, Makki was allegedly involved in terror financing for the deadly 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008 which left 164 people dead.
According to the, following the ban on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Pakistan, JuD started functioning as the 'charitable front' of LeT.
According to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Makki had been ill for the past few days and was undergoing treatment following high diabetes at a private hospital in Lahore.
"Makki suffered a cardiac arrest early this morning and he breathed his last in the hospital," a JuD official told PTI.
Makki's connection with terror financing
In 2020, JuD chief Hafiz Saeed's close aide Makki was handed down six months imprisonment in terror financing by an anti-terrorism court following which he maintained a low profile.
In May 2019, Makki was arrested by the Pakistan government and was put under house arrest in Lahore while in January 2023, United Nations Security Council (UNSC) declared Makki a "global terrorist".
As per a report by India Today, Apart from the Mumbai terror attack, Makki was also a wanted terrorist in India for his alleged involvement in the Red Fort attack in 2000, where six (LeT) terrorists had stormed Red Fort on December 22, and had opened fire on the security forces that led to the death of three people including Army jawans.
