Ilyas Kashmiri

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ilyas Kashmiri
Occupation	Celebrity
Date Of Birth	Feb 10, 1964(1964-02-10)
Age	60
Date Of Death	June 3, 2011, North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan
Birthplace	Bhimber
Country	Pakistan
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ilyas Kashmiri Biography

Ilyas Kashmiri is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on February 10, 1964 in Bhimber, Pakistan. Physically described by the US Department of State as “approximately six feet tall” and weighting “about 200 pounds”, Kashmiri was born on the 10th February 1964 in Bhimber, in the Samahni Valley of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Kashmiri was reported by some media sources as having served in the Pakistan Army’s elite Special Services Group (SSG), however he denied this in an interview with journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad. Kashmiri also spent a year studying communications at the Allama Iqbal University. He also studied for some time in Karachi’s Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia, a madrasa known to produce Islamist militants, where he’d form, with two follow students, the nucleus of what would become the first jihadi outfit of the country, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI).

Kashmiri rejected orders to serve under Maulana Masood Azhar in the newly founded jihadist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed and was once even targeted by the group. Falling out of favour with the Pakistani military, he was taken into custody and tortured in late 2003 in the wake of an attempt to assassinate President Musharraf. From his release in February 2004 until the 2007 Siege of Lal Masjid he apparently did little, but later returned to the 313 Brigade in the terrorist organisation Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), which is closely tied to al-Qaeda. Kashmiri rebuilt its strength while collaborating with the Taliban. This was part of a broader movement of Kashmir militants moving to Waziristan, and Kashmiri reportedly moved personnel from his Kotli (Kashmir) training camp to a new one in Razmak (North Waziristan). A U.S. indictment of Kashmiri stated that he “was in regular contact with al Qaeda [their italics] and in particular with Mustafa Abu al Yazid…”

He has been associated with a number of attacks, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the 2010 Pune bombing, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the killing of Ameer Faisal Alavi. Syed Saleem Shahzad wrote that Kashmiri proposed the Mumbai attacks to al-Qaeda leaders as a way to create a war that would bring operations against al-Qaeda to a halt. The plan was approved and given to former LeT commander Major Haroon Ashik.

Kashmiri was reported killed along with Hanifullah Janikhel and Kaleemullah in Machikhel, North Waziristan on 7 September 2009 when they were hit by a missile fired from a U.S. drone. At the time he was reportedly one of the top 10 most wanted militant commanders in Pakistan. However, in mid-October Kashmiri was reported to have survived the airstrike and granted an interview to Asia Times Online’s Syed Saleem Shahzad. A senior American official was later quoted by The Washington Times as saying “While there were preliminary indications that Kashmiri may have been dead, there is now reason to believe that he could be alive”. One rumour among militants asserted that Kashmiri had been outside urinating when the house he was staying at was hit.

In the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he trained the Afghan mujahideen in mine warfare in Miranshah on behalf of Pakistan. During the fighting he lost an eye and an index finger. He continued his militant activities in Kashmir after the war as a member of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), though disagreements with leader Qari Saifullah Akhtar several years after initially joining in 1991 led Kashmiri to establish his own new unit within HuJI known as the 313 Brigade.

Ilyas Kashmiri Net Worth

Ilyas Kashmiri is one of the richest Celebrity from Pakistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ilyas Kashmiri 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ilyas Kashmiri, also referred to as Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri and Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri (10 February 1964 – 3 June 2011), was a Pakistani Islamist militant, senior al-Qaeda operative and leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI). He was also connected with the Soviet–Afghan War, the Kashmir conflict and attacks against India and the United States. In August 2010, the US and the United Nations designated him a terrorist. NBC News reported that United States officials had mentioned him as a possible successor to Osama bin Laden as head of al-Qaeda. Prior to his death, a CNN News headline called him the “most dangerous man on Earth”, while the late journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad said of him that “he is invariably described by the world intelligence agencies as the most effective, dangerous, and successful guerrilla leader in the world.”

During the mid-1990s, Kashmiri and Nasrullah Mansoor Langrial were near Poonch when they were seized by the Indian Army and sent to prison, where he would spend the next two years before escaping and returning to Pakistan. Upon his return Kashmiri continued to conduct operations against India, once reportedly being rewarded personally with Rs 100,000 (about US$1,164.24) by then Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf for presenting the severed head of Bhausaheb Maruti Talekar, an Indian Army Soldier to him. Pictures of Kashmiri with the head of the soldier in his hands were published in some Pakistani newspapers.

According to Asia Times Online, Kashmiri was behind a 2008 plan to assassinate Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as he stepped out of his car during daily visits to a gym; however, the al-Qaeda leadership rejected the plan on strategic grounds. According to The News International, Kashmiri is accused of organising the December 2009 Camp Chapman attack against the CIA and the United States was seeking his arrest and extradition.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Lala Wazir, a spokesman for Mullah Nazir, a Taliban commander associated with the owner of the compound which was attacked, confirmed his death. Qari Muhammad Idress, a close aide to Kashmiri and a senior HUJI commander, also claimed he was killed in the drone strike. Al Qaeda also eulogised Kashmiri in the August issue of the Nawai Afghan Jihad magazine. On 7 July 2011, CNN reported that an unnamed US Intelligence official said US officials were 99 percent certain Kashmiri was killed but he added “the folks that make that determination aren’t ready to say so definitively.” The US State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program, which at one at point designated Kashmiri as a wanted terrorist and offered a $5,000,000 bounty for information leading to his capture, removed him from the list after he was killed. On 31 August 2011, Asia Times Online reported that a well known Taliban commander named Shah Sahib had replaced Kashmiri as commander of the Brigade 313.

Facts & Trivia

Mirko Ranked on the list of most popular Celebrity. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Pakistan. Ilyas Kashmiri celebrates birthday on February 10 of every year.

During court testimony on 31 May 2011, Headley indicated that he had conducted preliminary research for Kashmiri in a plot targeting Robert J. Stevens, the CEO of Lockheed-Martin, the defence contractor.

Where is Ilyas Kashmiri?

Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, the Al Qaeda commander who was believed to have been killed last month in a US drone attack in Pakistan, is alive, a media report said on Saturday. Kashmiri is still active in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan , Dawn said on its website quoting unnamed sources.

Is Ilyas Kashmiri dead?

June 3, 2011

Is Kashmir in North India?

The term North India has varying definitions. The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Northern Zonal Council Administrative division included the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan and Union Territories of Chandigarh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Who owned Kashmir originally?

Ever since its annexation by the Mughal empire in 1589 AD, Kashmir has never been ruled by Kashmiris themselves. After the Mughals, the region was ruled by the Afghans (1753-1819), Sikhs (1819-46), and the Dogras (1846-1947) until the Indian and Pakistani states took over.

Which is the richest district in Kashmir?

Srinagar has emerged as the richest district in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Union Territory with only 1.51 percent underprivileged people, a report of NITI Aayog said.