New Delhi:
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was among the seven Pakistanis accused of planning and abetting the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that he allegedly planned along with Hafiz Saeed.
The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander was named before Indian investigators by Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist captured alive after the 60-hour siege that left 166 dead in India's financial capital.
Kasab, who was executed in 2012, had confessed that he was recruited by a "Zaki Chacha" who turned out to be Lakhvi, the operational commander of LeT.
Lakhvi allegedly mentored the Mumbai attackers and told them that they were striking at a city that is India's economic strength, according to Kasab's confession.
Kasab revealed that Hafiz Sayeed and Lakhvi divided 10 terrorists into five pairs and gave them targets in Mumbai.
Lakhvi, along with other handlers, allegedly watched the attack on TV at a "control room" in Karachi and was constantly giving instructions to the 10 gunmen who spread terror on the streets of Mumbai.
The 51-year-old is known to young recruits as "chachu" or uncle and also goes by aliases like "chhota chachaji".
Kasab said Lakhvi urged them to wage war against India and was present when the terror recruits were trained in assembling and operating Kalashnikovs, grenades and rocket launchers.
He has allegedly directed military actions in Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq and South-east Asia.
Lakhvi and others arrested for 26/11 were described in a Pakistani court as "active members of defunct proscribed organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba", who set up militant training camps in Yousaf Goth, Karachi and Mirpur Sakroo in Sindh to train the Mumbai attackers."