Sheikh Yousaf Afridi, related to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and an in depth aide of Mumbai terror assault mastermind Hafiz Saeed, was shot useless by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, police mentioned.A police supply mentioned unknown armed assailants opened indiscriminate hearth on Afridi, killing him on the spot in Landi Kotal within the Khyber area, reported PTI. No group has claimed duty for the assault.Afridi was thought-about a key determine throughout the regional construction of the banned LeT and was believed to have performed a job in recruitment and coordination of the group’s actions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.An official of Saeed’s banned Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) mentioned that Afridi was a “famend spiritual scholar and belonged to the Zakhakhel tribe of Khyber and was considered a distinguished scholar of the Ahl-e-Hadith (Salafi) college of thought.”“He was focused when unidentified attackers sprayed him with bullets and managed to flee the scene. It must be remembered that extremist teams like — Khawarij (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) — are at the moment going through sturdy mental and sensible challenges from Salafi students,” he mentioned, as quoted by PTI.“The incident has sparked widespread anger within the space, and native authorities have launched an investigation to apprehend these chargeable for his killing,” the police supply mentioned.The killing comes over per week after Amir Hamza, a founding chief of LeT, suffered bullet accidents in an assault in Lahore. Hamza is taken into account the second most necessary chief of the group after Saeed, who has been in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail since 2019 after being convicted in terror financing instances.
