A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, Saifullah Khalid, accused of orchestrating several high-profile terror attacks in India, has been killed in Pakistan’s Sindh province on Sunday. He was attacked by some unknown assailants in Matli city of Badin district in Shind.

According to sources, Abu Saifullah had been given strict instructions by the organisation to limit his movements. He had also been provided security. However, earlier yesterday, as he stepped out of his house in the city of Matli, he was targeted and shot dead at a nearby intersection.

Khalid was a key conspirator in three major attacks: the 2005 Indian Science Congress (ISC) attack in Bangalore, the 2006 attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur and the 2008 CRPF camp assault in Rampur.

These attacks, carried out over a span of three years, claimed several lives and marked a massive escalation in LeT’s operations on Indian soil.