Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Shahid Latif, involved in Pathankot attack, killed in Pakistan

Shahid Latif, a distinguished determine related to the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist group, and the chief handler of the fidayeen squad accountable for the 2016 assault on the Pathankot airbase, was fatally shot by unidentified assailants inside a mosque in Sialkot, Pakistan.

Sources informed TOI that Latif was shot at point-blank vary by assailants who displayed an intensive understanding of the native terrain, indicating the potential involvement of native, home-grown terrorists within the assault.

Shahid Latif and 24 different terrorists had been launched by India in 2010 as a part of the UPA authorities’s efforts to fix relations with Pakistan. Latif’s launch had beforehand been sought by the identical Jaish terrorists who had hijacked Indian Airways flight IC-814.

This hijacking resulted within the launch of their chief, Maulana Masood Azhar, together with two others in change for 154 passengers in December 1999. Nevertheless, the Vajpayee authorities at the moment had declined to launch Latif and 31 different people on Jaish’s ‘want listing’.