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Mystery injury lands leave the co-founder Amir Hamza in the days of the Lahore Hospital after killing Top Aide

A cloud of confidentiality surrounds the sudden hospital stay of Senior Lashkar-E-Taiba (LET) ideologues and co-founder Amir Hamza, which was accepted into a military hospital in Lahore on Tuesday under Enger ISI security insurance. Toi Sources indicate that the 66-year-old Jihadi was critically injured in his residence, but the type of injuries and circumstances remains unclear.

The incident is carried out at a time of visible emigration in the upper echelons of Lashkar, with speculations being raised via possible internal disputes or targeted elimination. Hamza, long-time employee of Hafiz Saeed and Abdul Rehman Makki, was a central member of the Lashkar Central Committee and was the main propaganda of the group and head of his publications.

After Toi Report, pro-Lashkar telegram channels, the reaction to Hamza's state was quick and anxious. News asked the followers to stay calm and described the episode as a “accident”, but the tone proposed uncomfortable in the ranks.
Hamza, who declared a global terrorist by the United States in 2012, was known as an ideological engine behind Lashkar's narrative operations.

As a former Afghan jihadi, he gradually switched from field operations to Lashkar's propaganda, and created books such as how Qafila da'wat aur Shahadat (Caravan of proselyizing and martyrdom) and Shahrah-e-Bahish (The way to paradise). He was also the editor of the Weekly newspaper from Lashkar and contributed extensively to his radical literature.


According to the notes of the US Ministry of Finance, HAMZA holds several leading roles in Let's Outreach and donation weapons and was one of three designated negotiators who were commissioned to secure the release of detained Lashkar employees. He also briefly headed a front organization Jaish-E-Manqafa-von Hafiz Saeed in 2018 to avoid Pakistan's temporary bans on Lashkar and Jamaat-UD-Dawah. While the HAMZA group publicly transformed into its ideological wing years ago, his deep connections to Let's Old Guard and his role in the negotiation of parliamentary group balance sheets held a strong figure behind the scenes.

His abrupt medical emergency – together with the silent surrounding it surrounded – has only reinforced the feeling of instability in the outfit.

A dark backdrop: Saifullah's assassination attempt

Hamza's hospital stay takes place only three days after the murder of Abu Saifullah, a high-ranking Lashkar commander and important recruiting, in the Pakistani province of Sindh.

Saifullah was shot down by unidentified attackers in the early Sunday, in which the intelligence agency sees the operational network as a major disturbance of the Let's.

He had monitored the hidden infrastructure of Lashkar in Nepal and was connected to several attacks in India, including the IISC -Bengaluru shooting from 2005, the Nagpur RSS -Hauptquartier from 2006 and the CRPS camp attack from 2008 in Rampur. Remarkably, both were assumed that he and Hamza coordinated the IISC attack together.

A trademark of Saifullah's tactics was the use of terrorists who were dressed in the Indian army or in police uniforms – a frightening signature in several attacks. His death, which is unused by a group, has led to speculation about internal cleansing or external driven elimination that aims at the deposit of Lashkar's leadership.

Now that Hamza was eliminated in a critical condition and Saifullah, two of the most defined Lashkar were neutralized in a few days, a development that could mark a significant turning point in the future direction of the terrorist group – or disassembly of the terrorist group.

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