Amir Hamza, co founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba hospitalized after getting critically injured
Amir Hamza, a co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was hospitalised in Lahore after sustaining serious injuries at his home.
New Delhi (India) May 21: Amir Hamza, a key leader and co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was hospitalized in Lahore, Pakistan, after suffering injuries at his home. His injuries' extent and type have not been made public. The LeT and Pakistani officials have not made any formal statements regarding the incident.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is protecting him as he is receiving treatment at a military hospital in Lahore.
Hamza was an active terrorist who operated in India in the early 2000s. He comes from Gujranwala in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
He was a member of the team that carried out the 2005 attack on Bengaluru's Indian Institute of Science.He is considered as a close friend of Abdul Rehman Makki and Hafiz Saeed.
Hamza's injuries happened three days after unidentified shooters in Pakistan killed Abu Saifullah, a senior Lashkar operative and important member.
On Tuesday night, pro-Lashkar Telegram channels were shaken by terror sympathisers who said it was a "accident" and urged members to remain strong throughout the "crisis."
Amir Hamza is listed as a sanctioned terrorist by the US Treasury Department, which has also declared Lashkar-e-Taiba as a terrorist organisation.
He has held a number of leadership positions within the company, such as chairman of a LeT university trust that Saeed had previously run and head of a charity connected to LeT. These roles indicate Hamza's influence and the extent of his participation in the group's activities.
His writings have contributed to the growth of LeT's controversial ideology, such as his 2002 book Qafila Da'wat aur Shahadat ("Caravan of Proselytising and Martyrdom"). He has also served as the editor of the internal magazine of LeT.
Hamza left Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2018 and started Jaish-e-Manqafa, a fund-raising organisation.
The attack also came after India's Operation Sindoor, a series of targeted strikes on terror places in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) from May 7 to May 10, which raised tensions between India and Pakistan. The operation was launched in response to the terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22, which claimed the lives of 26 civilians, most of them tourists.
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