Key 26/11 attack plotter Makki dies in Pakistan

Abdul Rehman Makki, the brother-in-law of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed and designated a global terrorist by the United States and the United Nations following the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, died in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday.

- Rezaul H Laskar

Makki was ill for the past few days and being treated at a private hospital in Lahore for diabetes when he died "due to a heart attack", according to a statement from the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), a front for the LeT.

Proficient in Arabic and English, he assumed the nom de plume Makki after graduating from Umm al-Qura University in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. More an ideologue and fund-raiser, he was long associated with the LeT's political wing and became head of the political affairs department in 2008, when the group carried out the brazen terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, including 24 foreign nationals.