Lashkar man behind attacks on RSS HQ, IISc gunned down in Pakistan

“As of now, intelligence agencies have received information that the incident took place when he left his residence at Matli and was gunned down by three armed assailants near a crossing at Badni in Sindh province,” the official said.

According to reports, Khalid was declared dead at a hospital after being shot. The reports also termed it a case of personal enmity.

A close associate of Abu Anas of LeT, Khalid masterminded the RSS headquarters attack in which all three terrorists involved were shot dead. Besides the RSS attack, he was involved in the 2005 Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru terror attack in which IIT professor Munish Chandra Puri was killed and four others injured. The terrorists escaped from the scene. Later, police chargesheeted Abu Anas, who is still at large.

Khalid was also the planner of the 2008 attack on a CRPF camp at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh in which seven personnel and a civilian were killed. The two terrorists involved escaped under the cover of darkness.

From mid-2000, Khalid was the in-charge of the Nepal module of LeT, responsible for the recruitment of cadres, providing financial and logistic support and facilitating the movement of LeT operatives across the India-Nepal border.

Khalid worked closely with LeT’s so-called launching commanders — Azam Cheema alias Babaji and Yaqoob (LeT’s chief accountant). “Khalid left Nepal and returned to Pakistan after Indian security agencies exposed the module. He later worked closely with several leaders of LeT and Jamaat-ud-Dawah, including Yusuf Muzammil, LeT commander for Jammu and Kashmir, Muzammil Iqbal Hashmi and Muhammad Yusuf Taibi,” an official said.

Khalid was tasked by the LeT and JuD leadership in Pakistan to undertake the recruitment of fresh cadres from Badin and Hyderabad districts of Sindh and collect funds for the organisation.

With inputs from PTI