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Ajmal Kasab

1987 - 2012

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Muhammad Ajmal Amir Kasab (13 July 1987 – 21 November 2012) was a Pakistani terrorist and a member of the Islamist militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiba through which he took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in Maharashtra, India. Kasab, alongside fellow Lashkar-e-Taiba recruit Ismail Khan, killed 72 people during the attacks, most of them at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Kasab was the only attacker who was apprehended alive by the police. Kasab was born in Faridkot, Pakistan and left his home in 2005, engaging in petty crime and armed robbery with a friend. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ajmal Kasab is the 277th most popular extremist (down from 274th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 176th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Pakistani Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ajmal Kasab ranks 277 out of 283Before him are Beverley Allitt, Mohammed Bijeh, Waleed al-Shehri, Amy Fisher, Khader Adnan, and Hakimullah Mehsud. After him are Monster of Florence, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Omar Mateen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Omar Khadr, and Samantha Lewthwaite.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Ajmal Kasab ranks 717Before him are Liang Wenbo, Aleksandra Wozniak, Yarisley Silva, Pelé, Ren Hayakawa, and Serge Gakpé. After him are Yūki Nagasato, Bahodir Nasimov, Yasmani Copello, Piotr Żyła, Adam Johnson, and Olcay Şahan. Among people deceased in 2012, Ajmal Kasab ranks 517Before him are Leslie Carter, Miki Roqué, Samia Yusuf Omar, Hollie Stevens, Vigor Bovolenta, and Andrew Breitbart. After him are Jorge Andrés Boero, Mark Lenzi, Doris Singleton, Sarah Burke, Jaspal Bhatti, and Tony Greig.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Ajmal Kasab ranks 182 out of 217Before him are Prithipal Singh (1932), Rehman Malik (1951), Younis Khan (1975), Chris Anderson (1957), Hakimullah Mehsud (1979), and Govind Nihalani (1940). After him are Usman Khawaja (1986), Jahangir Khan (1963), Wasim Akram (1966), Shahid Afridi (1980), Mohsin Hamid (1971), and Hina Rabbani Khar (1977).

Among EXTREMISTS In Pakistan

Among extremists born in Pakistan, Ajmal Kasab ranks 6Before him are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Javed Iqbal (1961), Fazlullah (1974), Baitullah Mehsud (1974), and Hakimullah Mehsud (1979).