Second-in-command of Lashkar-e-Taiba (1954–2024)
Abdul Rehman Makki (; 10 December 1954 – 27 December 2024) was a Pakistani radical Islamist and the second-in-command of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) a Pakistani Islamic-welfarist-militant political organization and Naib Ameer of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He was the cousin and brother-in-law of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. He taught at the Umul Qura University Makkah Mukarma, Saudi Arabia, and, in 1992, released a book showing how fedayeen operations are not suicide attacks and thesis In Mphil Allama Sayooti Book.
Biography.
Abdul Rehman Makki, alongside Hafiz Saeed, was working for Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) which is designated to defend the interests of Pakistan and to agitate against the drone attacks in Waziristan, Pakistan. DPC, in its own words, is against the war in Afghanistan. It has also protested against the NATO supplies going through Pakistan.
Makki was alleged to be in proximity to the Taliban's supreme commander Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri. He was popular in Pakistan for his anti-India speeches. In 2017, his son, Owaid Rehman Makki was killed in an operation by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
The United States Department of the Treasury designated Makki as a Specially Designated International Terrorist. It listed his address in Muridke, the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba. The Rewards for Justice Terror List had an announced reward of up to $2 million for information leading to the location of Makki.
Pakistan's foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar has said that they would need hard evidence to prosecute Hafiz Saeed and his allies such as Abdul Rehman Makki.
In 2020, an Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan convicted Makki of terror financing and sentenced him to jail but this was commuted to a Rs.  fine by another court.
On 16 January 2023, he was designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council as being associated with ISIL or Al-Qaida for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of", "recruiting for", "otherwise supporting acts or activities of", and "either owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by, or otherwise supporting" Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. India and the US had wanted Makki to be sanctioned as a global terrorist back in 2022, but the designation had then been blocked by China.
Makki died of a heart attack in Lahore, on 27 December 2024, at the age of 70. He had been suffering from diabetes.
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