Islamabad: Abu Hanzala, also known as Adnan Ahmed, a top-ranking commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba, was gunned down by unknown men outside his home in Karachi. Over the years, a number of attacks against security convoys in Kashmir valley have been planned by Hanzala.
A group of attackers broke through the two-tier security ring that the ISI had given to Hanzala, shooting him many times in the head, chest, and stomach at point blank range. He was targeted by gunmen outside his home at night. He was rushed to the nearby Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
The local law enforcement have termed it a terrorist attack. Hanzala - who appears to be the most significant figure to die in mysterious killings in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir this year - had coordinated the terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Pampore (J&K) on June 25, 2016, resulting in eight casualties and injuries to 22 security personnel.
There were two reasons why the death of yet another terrorist on India's "wanted list" was noteworthy. Hanzala was protected by many layers of security around-the-clock, unlike other people who were killed in Pakistan and the region under its control and were wanted by India for their involvement in terrorism. Second, it was quickly determined that he had been killed in a "terrorist attack" in his case.