This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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One of the most wanted Pakistani militant leader, notorious as the mastermind of 2009 Sri Lankan cricket team attack in Lahore, Qari Ajmal has been ‘killed’ in eastern Afghanistan. Sources in the militant networks confirmed the news on Sunday. The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team claimed the lives of seven police officials and injured many others including seven Sri Lankan players; naely Mahela Jayawaredene, Kumar Sangakkara, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Samaraweera, Tharanga Paranavitana and Chaminda Vaas.
The leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangi (LeJ), Ajmal, reportedly fled to Waziristan after the attack and kept company of Hakimullah Mehsood, who is the chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) killed in November 2013. Thereafter, sources claim Ajmal fled to Afghanistan like many other Pakistani militants, where he was living with Mehsud Taliban in the Afghan province bordering Pakistan, Paktika.
Reports claim that Qari Ajmal was killed in a joint operation by foreign and Afghan troops in Aurgon area of Paktika. Prior to Ajmal’s death, other senior Pakistani militant commanders have also been killed in Afghanistan within two weeks only. Leading Pakistani Taliban commander, Azam Tariq, and his son were killed in Paktika by the US-led NATO and Afghan forces September 25, whereas the mastermind of the brutal Army Public School (APS) attack that killed nearly 140 students and staff members in Peshawar, Omar Mansoor alias Naray, was killed in a US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province, which also borders Pakistan.
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