In a major setback to the Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen, the launching commander of the outfit Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam was killed on Monday in Rawalpindi in Pakistan, media reports said.
Peer was shot dead on Monday evening outside a store in Rawalpindi.
“On 4 October, the Centre designated him as a “terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for his role in terror activities including providing logistics to the banned outfit’s terrorists especially for infiltration into the Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir”.
Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam alias Haji, originally belonging to Babarpora area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district was living in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi.
Centre government’s notification said that Peer was involved in “a number of online propaganda groups to unite ex-militants and other cadres for the furtherance of activities of Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Toiba and others.”
