In Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Toiba commander, Adnan Ahmed alias Abu Hanzala, has been gunned down by unidentified men outside his home in Karachi. He was the mastermind behind several attacks on security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir including the terrorist attack on CRPF convoy in Pampore on June 25,
2016.
Pakistani law enforcement agencies have termed the killing a terrorist attack. Hanzala's murder comes a month after two other prominent faces of Lashkar - Akram Ghazi and Khwaja Shahid, were killed in similar fashion.