Handler of Pathankot attackers, a Jaish-e-Mohammad commander, shot dead

Shahid Latif, a Jaish-e-Mohammad commander and key handler of terrorists who carried out the attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base in 2016, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Sialkot area, according to Indian intelligence officials. Undated photo of Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Shahid Latif, believed to be the mastermind of the 2016 attack on an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, who was gunned down on Wednesday by unidentified assailants in a mosque in Daska town of Pakistan's Sialkot district. During the 2016 Pathankot attack, Latif, along with Kashif Jan, also known as ‘Ustad Ji’, was in continuous touch with four fidayeen attackers, Nasir Hussain, Abu Bakar, Umar Farooq and Abdul Qayum, who barged into the IAF base on the night of January 1, 2016 and killed seven security personnel. The Pathankot attack chargesheet filed by National Investigation Agency, naming Maulana Masood Azhar, Latif, Jan and others in 2016 itself, stated that the fidayeen attackers left two slips in Pathankot attack, which mentioned that “Jaish-e-Mohammad Zindabad Tangdhar se le kar Samba Kathua Rajbagh aur Delhi tak Afzal Guru Shaheed Kay Jan Nisar Tum Ko Meltay Rahenge.