Abdul Rehman Makki
Personal details
Born1948 or 1954[1]
Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Political partyJamaat-ud-Dawah
RelationsHafiz Muhammad Saeed (brother-in-law)
ChildrenOwaid Rehman Makki  †
OccupationProfessor (retd.) at Islamic University of Madinah
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
MovementAhl-e-Hadith
NationalityPakistani
Military service
AllegianceLashkar-e-Taiba
RankSecond-in-command of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) & Naib Ameer of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
Battles/wars

Abdul Rehman Makki (born 1948 or 1954) is 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), the Pakistani Islamist militant organisation which is operating against India.[2][1] He is the cousin and brother-in-law of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.[3] He has previously taught at the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, and, in 2004, released a book showing how fedayeen operations are not suicide attacks.[4]

Biography

Abdul Rehman Makki, alongside Hafiz Saeed, is currently 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.[5]

Makki is alleged to be in proximity to Taliban's supreme commander Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri.[6] He is popular in Pakistan for his anti-India speeches.[6] In 2017, his son, Owaid Rehman Makki was killed in operation by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir[7]

The United States Department of the Treasury has designated Makki as a Specially Designated International Terrorist. It lists his address in Muridke, the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba.[8] Rewards for Justice Terror List has a announced reward of upto $2 million for information leading to the location of Makki.[1]

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.[9]

In 2020, an Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan convicted Makki for terror financing and sentenced him to jail but this was commuted to a Rs. 50,000 fine by another court.[10][1]

On 16 January 2023, he was designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council.[11] 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.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki". Rewards for Justice.
  2. ↑ "Mumbai Terror Attacks Fast Facts". CNN. 19 September 2013. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Walsh, Declan (3 April 2012). "U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Pakistani Militant allegedly Tied to Mumbai Attacks". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Christine Fair, In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Oxford University Press (2019), p. 91
  5. ↑ "Agitation against drone attacks Difa-e-Pakistan Council to hold protest in City on 15th". Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  6. 1 2 Parashar, Sachin (5 April 2012). "Hafiz Saeed's brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki is a conduit between Lashkar-e-Taiba and Taliban". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012.
  7. ↑ "Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi's nephew among six terrorists killed in Kashmir". 19 November 2017. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "MAKKI, HAFIZ ABDUL REHMAN". sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Masood, Salman (5 April 2012). "Pakistanis Criticize U.S. Reward for Militant". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 0362-4331.
  10. ↑ Bhattacherjee, Kallol (18 June 2022). "Abdul Rehman Makki | LeT's terror financier". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  11. ↑ Abdul Rehman Makki. UN.org.
  12. ↑ "Pak's Abdul Makki Named Global Terrorist, Year After China Blocked Attempt". NDTV.com.
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