Ghazi Baba

Ghazi Baba (also spelt as Gazi Baba; born as Rana Tahir Nadeem), was born into a Muslim Rajput family, he was a top ranking commander of JeM and deputy commander of the militant group Harkat-ul-Ansar. He was the mastermind of the Indian Parliament attack on 13 December 2001.[1] He was also involved in two car blasts at the Army headquarters in Srinagar on 19 April 2000 and 25 December 2000, and in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly car bombing of 1 October 2001.[2][3] He was also known as Abu Jihadi, Sajid jihadi, Shahbaz Khan, Mudasir Shahbaz, Saqlain, and Abu Hijrat.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Ghazi was also reportedly involved in the kidnapping of 6 foreigners in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir in 1995.[10]

In August 2003, Ghazi Baba was killed in operation Ghazi conducted by Border Security Force (BSF) in Srinagar.[11][12][13][14]

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