
Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki (1948-27 December 2024) was the second-in-command of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Biography[]
Abdul Rehman Makki was born in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan in 1948, the cousin and brother-in-law of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. He taught at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia, where he preached that fedayeen operations were not suicide attacks, and he became a leader of the welfare organization Jamaat-ud-Dawah. He was believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and he became popular for his anti-India speeches; he even warned India that three of its cities (including Pune) would soon be targeted, just eight days before the 2010 Pune bombing.