From UP village to Dhaka, Pak

Aug 18, 2013 |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

Abdul Karim, alias Tunda, 70, a top bomber of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and an expert of making improvised explosive devices (IEDs), is a resident of Pilkhua in Ghaziabad in UP. He was born in 1943 at Daryaganj and spent his childhood in the old Delhi area. His father was a metal worker. Soon after his birth, his father, along with his family, shifted to their native village in Pilkhua.
Tunda variously worked as a scrap dealer, carpenter and cloth merchant. Till 1980, he was running a homeopathic shop. He became a radicalised jihadi when he was 40 years old and started working for terrorist organisations.
His younger brother Abdul Malik is the only family member who lives in India. He is accused of masterminding over 40 bomb blasts that took place in Delhi, Panipat, Sonepat, Ludhiana, Kanpur and Varanasi in which 21 people were killed and 400 were injured. In mid-1990 Tunda fled to Bangladesh, where he met Lashkar chief Zaki-ur Rehman Lak-hvi, who introduced him to people with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. He was trained in bomb-making by the ISI. He used to teach Lashkar cadres how to make bombs.

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