Centre designates 18 Pak-based terrorists as ‘individual terrorists’

The Centre, on Tuesday, designated 18 Pakistan-based terrorists and their associates as ‘individual terrorists’, the Hindustan Times has reported. These include terrorists involved in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, the 26/11 Mumbai attack, the 2019 Pulwama bombing, the 2016 Pathankot IAF base attack, the 1999 IC-814 Indian Airlines hijacking and other terror attacks in the country. Among those declared as ‘individual terrorists’, under the amended UAPA are Pakistan spy agency ISI asset Sajid Mir, who monitored the 26/11 Mumbai attacks from a control room in Karachi; Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin, Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed’s brother-in-law Abdur Rehman Makki, Jaish chief Maulana Masood Azhar’s brother Abdul Rauf Asghar, founder of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen Riyaz Bhatkal and a few associates of Dawood Ibrahim, the report said.