Mastermind Lakhvi sent his son to J&K where he was killed last year

“SUPREME commander” of Lashkar-e-Toiba Zaki-urRehman Lakhvi, among the four men proscribed by the United Nations Security Council today in connection with the Mumbai attacks, sent his 20-year-old son to fight in Kashmir — and die.

Lakhvi’s son Mohammad Qasim was killed in a fierce gunbattle with the Army and J-K police last year. Sources have confirmed to The Indian Express that Qasim crossed over to the Valley in July 2006 and was based in Bandipore, considered the Lashkar headquar ters in Kashmir.

“He operated as an ordinary militant without any rank in the Lashkar here but we knew he was very important because of the way Lashkar would treat him,” a senior officer said. “Abu Wafa was the district commander in Bandipore and he would personally shadow Qasim like a bodyguard.” A J&K Police officer, involved in counter-insurgency operations in Bandipore, said that within months of Qasim’s arrival, he had become Lashkar’s most important man in Kashmir. “He (Qasim) came while Charlie One (Bilal alias Salahudin) was still here. And soon after he came, Charlie One left. In a way, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi had sent his own son to represent him”. 

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