Haaris Saeed (died 2015) was a Pakistani jihadist ideologue and the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group. Saeed was an immensely popular figure in Pakistan, and he advocated for the implementation of Islamic rule in every Pakistani city and the national defense of Islam from the United States and its ally, India. To this end, he masterminded the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people and humiliated India. In 2015, after receiving reports that LeT was planning another major terrorist attack in India, India's Research and Analysis Wing intelligence agency launched a highly secretive and unauthorized retaliatory campaign of assassinations, Operation Phantom, against the LeT leadership. Saeed was one of the last two LeT leaders to be targeted, and RAW agent Daniyal Khan attempted to assassinate him at one of his crowded rallies in Lahore, using an explosives-rigged microphone. However, the bomb did not detonate when Khan first triggered it, and the police - tipped off by the ISI - arrived and warned Saeed that his life was in imminent danger. Just then, Khan triggered the microphone bomb, causing one policeman to catch fire. Saeed was then driven away from the rally by his chauffeur Noomyalay Nishapuri, but Khan stole a police Toyota and rammed Saeed's vehicle from the side, causing it to violently flip over and trap Saeed. Khan gunned down two Pakistani police before publicly confronting Saeed, telling him that India wanted justice (in reference to Saeed's frequent rhetorical questions about what India wanted), and shooting him in the head. Khan then ran off as the vehicle exploded, putting an end to the LeT leader.
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