Intelligence agencies located Mauz in Faisalabad, Punjab, on the basis of information provided by one of his associates who was arrested recently.
Pakistani law-enforcement personnel today shot dead former Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Dr Mauz alias Omar Kundi, who allegedly masterminded the May 2009 attack on the headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Lahore.
Intelligence agencies located Dr Mauz in Faisalabad, Punjab, on the basis of information provided by one of his close associates who was arrested recently, said a senior police officer in the city.
The officer said authorities used the detained associate to convey a message to Dr Mauz that he should provide weapons for carrying out an attack on the ISI office in Faisalabad, located about 100km from Lahore.
When Dr Mauz and his accomplice Adil came in a rickshaw to supply the weapons, they were intercepted and killed by commandos, hardly a kilometre from the ISI office on University Road.
"Both Mauz and Adil were killed on the spot when they tried to open fire," said the police officer, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Dr Mauz completed his MBBS from Punjab Medical College in Faisalabad during 2004-05. He subsequently joined the LeT and became 'amir' (chief) of the banned group in the district.
"After developing differences with LeT chief Hafiz Saeed over the working of the group, especially after the Lal Masjid siege in Islamabad in 2007, Mauz joined the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi to work against former president Pervez Musharraf's pro-US polices," the officer said.
Since then, Mauz had carried out several terrorist strikes in collaboration with the Punjab chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan that targeted law-enforcement agencies.
He was also involved in attacks on the ISI headquarters, the Federal Investigation Agency's headquarters in Lahore, and the police training centre in Manawan last year.
An officer of the crime investigation department also said that Dr Mauz was heading a breakaway group of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and had links with al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan.
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