Razaullah Nizamani, alias Ghazi Abu Saifullah Khalid, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist and close aide of Hafiz Saeed, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan’s Sindh province on Sunday afternoon. Khalid, notorious for his role in the failed 2006 attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, was targeted while stepping out of his house in Matli, Badin district, according to Indian intelligence officials.
Khalid’s killing comes just weeks after the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on April 26, which killed 26 civilians and triggered India’s massive retaliatory military campaign—Operation Sindoor. The Pakistan Army and ISI had reportedly warned senior LeT leaders to remain underground after the operation’s launch.
Officials said Saifullah was deeply embedded in LeT’s terror network. Besides the RSS attack, he was linked to the 2005 Indian Institute of Science shooting in Bengaluru and the 2008 attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur.
He previously operated under LeT leaders Abdul Rehman Makki and Azam Cheema—both of whom died in 2024—and was currently reporting to Abu Anas, one of the group’s top operational commanders. Khalid also led LeT’s Nepal operations in the early 2000s, using aliases such as Vinode Kumar, Mohammed Salim, and Razaullah to recruit cadres and move operatives across the Indo-Nepal border.
After Indian agencies dismantled his network in Nepal, Khalid returned to Pakistan, where he worked closely with Jamaat-ud-Dawah and LeT leadership including Yusuf Muzammil and Muhammad Yusuf Taibi. His most recent assignment involved recruiting fighters and collecting funds in Sindh’s Badin and Hyderabad districts.
His assassination is the latest blow to LeT’s command structure, following the Indian military’s precision strikes on May 7 during Operation Sindoor, which destroyed nine terror camps in Pakistan and PoK. These strikes, and subsequent IAF raids on 13 Pakistani military targets between May 9-10, reportedly killed over 100 terrorists.
While Pakistan has not officially responded to the killing, reports in local media confirm that Saifullah was gunned down by unknown assailants. His death adds to a string of high-profile eliminations of LeT commanders in recent months, raising questions about internal security lapses within the terror outfit and the possible role of rival factions or intelligence retribution in the volatile post-conflict scenario.
