The United Nations Security Council has said that Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, founding member of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and deputy to Hafiz Saeed is ‘confirmed dead’, news agency ANI reported on Thursday. As per UNSC, Bhuttavi died of cardiac arrest in Muridke, Punjab Province on May 29, 2023 while he was in custody of the Pakistan Government.
Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, founding member of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and deputy to Hafiz Saeed is ‘Confirmed Deceased’ pic.twitter.com/wFLKZAnOhw
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Bhuttavi, who helped prepare the terrorists who carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had died in a Pakistani prison while serving a sentence for terror financing, as reported by news agency PTI.
Bhuttavi was deputy to the outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. The JuD is the front organisation for the LeT.
“Bhuttavi, 77, was incarcerated at District Jail Sheikhupura, some 60 kms from Lahore, since October 2019 in a terror financing case. On May 29, he felt severe pain in his chest and was shifted to hospital where he was pronounced dead (due to cardiac arrest) on arrival,” a JuD official had told PTI.
According to PTI, Bhuttavi’s funeral was held at the LeT/JuD headquarters in Muridke in which a large number of the supporters of the banned organisation participated amid high security.
