Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, the deputy chief of the outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawa and brother-in-law of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, passed away here on Friday from a heart attack. According to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Prof. Abdul Rehman Makki had been in a private hospital in Lahore for a few days, receiving treatment for high diabetes.
“Makki suffered a cardiac arrest early this morning and he breathed his last in the hospital,” a JuD official told PTI. In 2020, an anti-terrorism court sentenced Makki, the brother-in-law of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, to six months in prison for financing terrorism. Makki, the deputy head of JuD, had been avoiding attention since receiving a sentence for supporting terrorism.
In a statement, the Pakistan Muttahida Muslim League (PMML) claimed that Makki supported Pakistani ideology. Makki was placed under an arms embargo, travel ban, and asset freeze when the UN named him a global terrorist in 2023.
