Bot at 04:06, 31 August 2022

2022-08-31T04:06:54Z

New page

{{EngvarB|date=March 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Azam Ghauri
| honorific_suffix =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| image = 
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 
| birth_place =
| death_date = 6 April 2000
| death_place = [[Jagityal]]<ref name=rd1 />
| death_cause =
| citizenship =
| education =
| alma_mater =
| occupation =
| years_active =
| employer =
| organization = [[People's War Group]](PWG)<br>Tanzim Islahul Muslimeen(TIM)<br>[[Lashkar-e-Taiba]]<br>Indian Muslim Mohammadi Mujahideen (IMMM)
| agent =
| known_for =
| criminal_charge = 
| criminal_penalty =
| criminal_status =
| footnotes =
}}

'''Azam Ghauri''' was a Terrorist belonging to [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] and was wanted for various crimes including the [[1993 Bombay bombings|1993 serial bomb blasts]].<ref name=rd1>{{cite web|url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/14isib.htm|title=Azam Ghauri: The ISI kingpin|author=George Iype}}</ref><ref name=fl>{{cite web|url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1710/17100390.htm |title=The 'liberation' of Hyderabad |author=Praveen Swami |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017231201/http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1710/17100390.htm |archivedate=2007-10-17 }}</ref>

==History==
In 1990, Azam Ghauri was part of [[People's War Group]]. He was seriously injured during an attack that he carried out in [[Warangal]]. To escape arrest he fled [[Andhra Pradesh]] and went to Pakistan and joined Lashkar-e-Toiba.<ref name=rd1 /> He received training at the hands of [[Taliban]] in Afghanistan.<ref name=red />

In 1992, he returned to India and was involved in the murder of G Krishna Prasad, an [[Additional Superintendent of Police]] in Hyderabad.<ref name=red>{{cite web|url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/14isi1.htm|title=Liberating Hyderabad is a priority for Lashkar-e-Toiba|author=George Iype}}</ref>

In 1993 he was part of the criminal group that carried out the [[1993 Bombay bombings|1993 serial bomb blasts]] in [[Mumbai|Bombay]]<ref name=rd1 /> which caused over 250 fatalities and 700 injuries.<ref>{{cite book | last=Hansen | first=Thomas | year=2001 | title=Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay| publisher=Princeton University Press | location=Princeton, New Jersey | isbn=978-0-691-08840-2 | page=125 }}</ref> He fled again to Pakistan to escape prosecution and received further weapons training.{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}}

Ghauri infiltrated back into India and came to [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] and started recruiting Muslim youths for disruptive activities in India and founded ''Indian Muslim Mohammadi Mujahideen'' outfit with the stated objective "to eradicate western culture from India".<ref name=rd1 /><ref name=fl />

On 6 April 2000 he was killed by [[Hyderabad Police]] in a police shoot out, after he pulled out a 7.65 mm Mauser pistol to fire at policemen.<ref name=fl />

Police records show Ghauri was involved in as many as 60 crimes such as extortion, killings and theft.<ref name=rd1 />

==See also==
* [[Islamic fundamentalism]]
* [[Jihadism]]
* [[Islamic terrorism]]
* [[Revolutionary communism]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghauri, Azam}}
[[Category:20th-century criminals]]
[[Category:Islamic terrorism in India]]
[[Category:2000 deaths]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]
[[Category:Crime in Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:Lashkar-e-Taiba members]]
[[Category:Indian Islamists]]
[[Category:Deaths by firearm in India]]
[[Category:1993 Bombay bombings]]

Azam Ghauri - Revision history

Bot at 04:06, 31 August 2022