Abdul Rehman Makki

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Abdul Rehman Makki
Bornc. 1948[1]
Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
OccupationProfessor (retd.) at Islamic University of Madinah
OrganizationJamaat-ud-Dawah
Lashkar-e-Taiba
ChildrenOwaid Rehman Makki  †

Abdul Rehman Makki is an Islamist activist and the second-in-command of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), a Pakistani Islamic welfare organization of Ahl-e-Hadith and the political arm of the UN-designated terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba which aims to install Islamist rule of law and governance in Pakistan.[1] He is the cousin and brother-in-law of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.[2]

He has previously taught at the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, and, in 2004, released a book showing how fedayeen operations are not suicide attacks.[3]

The United States Department of the Treasury has designated Makki as a Specially Designated International Terrorist. It has announced a reward of $2 million through its Rewards for Justice Program for information leading to the location of Makki.[1] Makki is alleged to be in proximity to Taliban's supreme commander Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri.[4]

Makki is popular in Pakistan for his anti-India speeches.[4]

Abdul Rehman Makki, alongside Hafiz Saeed, is currently 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.[5]

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.[6]

In 2017, his son, Owaid Rehman Makki was killed in operation by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir[7]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki". Articles. Rewards for Justice Website. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  2. ^ Walsh, Declan (3 April 2012). "U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Pakistani Militant allegedly Tied to Mumbai Attacks". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Christine Fair, In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Oxford University Press (2019), p. 91
  4. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Masood, Salman (5 April 2012). "Pakistanis Criticize U.S. Reward for Militant". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 0362-4331.
  7. ^ "Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi's nephew among six terrorists killed in Kashmir". 19 November 2017. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2017.

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