Fazlur Rehman Khalil
Fazlur Rehman Khalil | |
|---|---|
| فضل الرحمن خليل | |
| Emir of Ansar-ul-Umma | |
| Assumed office 2004 | |
| Preceded by | None (office created) |
| Vice President of Difa-e-Pakistan Council | |
| Assumed office 2012 | |
| Leader | Sami-ul-Haq (2012-2018) Ahmed Ludhianvi (2018–) |
| Emir of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen | |
| In office 1996–2000 | |
| Preceded by | Sajjad Afghani |
| Succeeded by | Farooq Kashmiri |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1963 (age 62–63) Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan |
| Party | Ansar-ul-Umma |
| Alma mater | Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia |
| Military service | |
| Battles/wars | |
Fazlur Rehman Khalil (Urdu: فضل الرحمن خليل c. 1963) is Pakistani militant leader who founded the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM). He is the current leader of both the Difa-e-Pakistan Council and Ansar-ul-Umma, a front organization of the HuM. He also runs the Jamia Khalid Bin Walid, a Islamic seminary located in Islamabad’s Golra district town which has been accused of supporting the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
He is sanctioned as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control; where he is listed as a mawlānā and qāriʾ born in 1963 in Pakistan with addresses in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Khalil was also suspected of having masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.
He is considered to be close to the Afghan Taliban and former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.