According to unverified claims, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) co-founder and designated terrorist hafiz saeed may have been murdered in an incident in Jhelum, Punjab, on Saturday. The reported incident featured unidentified gunmen shooting Saeed and his accomplice, Faisal Nadeem (also known as Abu Qatal), in what some sources described as a targeted strike near Mangla Bypass in Jhelum, according to social media posts and local media outlets like ARY news and photonews.com.pk.

Senior journalist raja Muneeb took to X to narrate the incident.


Nevertheless, no formal declaration from the Pakistani government, military, or law enforcement authorities has substantiated these allegations, offered information regarding the specifics of the said assault on Saeed, or acknowledged his presence in Jhelum.
 
The united states and the United Nations have classified hafiz saeed as a global terrorist. He is well-known for having helped establish LeT in the late 1980s and for his suspected involvement in the 2008 mumbai attacks, which claimed 166 lives.

Although he has been serving a 78-year sentence for financing terrorism and has been under house arrest in Lahore since 2019, he has occasionally been spotted traveling freely by court orders.
 
Although local Jhelum police have stepped up patrols in the area, they have not responded to the speculations about Saeed's whereabouts.
 
A pattern of targeted killings across the nation, including the 2023 assassination of Muhammad Riaz, a terrorist associated with Jamaat-ud-Dawa, in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, is also consistent with the reported incident.
 
The United Nations and the U.S. State Department, which has offered a $10 million reward for Saeed, have not yet responded to the unverified reports.
 


 
 
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SIBY JEYYA

16/03/2025 10:58 AM