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Abdul Rehman Makki (Urdu: عبد الرحمن مکی; 10 December 1954 – 27 December 2024) was a Pakistani radical Islamist and the second-in-command of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) a Pakistani Islamic-welfarist-militant political organization and Naib Ameer of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He was the cousin and brother-in-law of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. He taught at the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, and, in 2004, released a book showing how fedayeen operations are not suicide attacks.

Biography

Abdul Rehman Makki, alongside Hafiz Saeed, was working for Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) which is designated to defend the interests of Pakistan and to agitate against the drone attacks in Waziristan, Pakistan. DPC, in its own words, is against the war in Afghanistan. It has also protested against the NATO supplies going through Pakistan.

Makki was alleged to be in proximity to the Taliban's supreme commander Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri. He was popular in Pakistan for his anti-India speeches. In 2017, his son, Owaid Rehman Makki was killed in an operation by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

The United States Department of the Treasury designated Makki as a Specially Designated International Terrorist. It listed his address in Muridke, the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba. The Rewards for Justice Terror List had an announced reward of up to $2 million for information leading to the location of Makki.

Pakistan's foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar has said that they would need hard evidence to prosecute Hafiz Saeed and his allies such as Abdul Rehman Makki.

In 2020, an Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan convicted Makki of terror financing and sentenced him to jail but this was commuted to a Rs. 50,000 fine by another court.

On 16 January 2023, he was designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council as being associated with ISIL or Al-Qaida for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of", "recruiting for", "otherwise supporting acts or activities of", and "either owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by, or otherwise supporting" Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. India and the US had wanted Makki to be sanctioned as a global terrorist back in 2022, but the designation had then been blocked by China.

Abdul Rehman Makki died of a heart attack on 27 December 2024 in Lahore. He had been suffering from diabetes.

References

1. ^ "Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki". Rewards for Justice.
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6. ^ Parashar, Sachin (5 April 2012). "Hafiz Saeed's brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki is a conduit between Lashkar-e-Taiba and Taliban". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012.
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8. "MAKKI, HAFIZ ABDUL REHMAN". sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
9. Masood, Salman (5 April 2012). "Pakistanis Criticize U.S. Reward for Militant". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 0362-4331.
10. Bhattacherjee, Kallol (18 June 2022). "Abdul Rehman Makki | LeT's terror financier". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
11. Abdul Rehman Makki. UN.org.
12. "Pak's Abdul Makki Named Global Terrorist, Year After China Blocked Attempt". NDTV.com.
13. "LeT Deputy Leader Makki dies in Pakistan". 27 December 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
14. "Pakistan-based LeT's deputy leader Abdul Rehman Makki dies". The Indian Express. 27 December 2024.

External links

• "Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki". Rewards for Justice.

• 1954 births
• 2024 deaths
• Pakistani Islamists
• Lashkar-e-Taiba members
• People from Bahawalpur
• Academic staff of the Islamic University of Madinah
• Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List
• Individuals designated as terrorists by the United States government
• Leaders of Islamic terror groups
• People convicted on terrorism charges
• Ahl-i Hadith people
• Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
• People designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee
• Rewards for Justice