Rashid, an ethnic Pashtun, is a resident of the Chota Lahor area of Swabi district.
He joined the Pakistan Air Force as a junior technician in 1997, but was later dismissed due to his Salafist extremist ideology.
[3] Rashid was convicted for an attack on then President General Pervaiz Musharraf in December 2003 and was given the death penalty.
[4][5] He masterminded the Dera Ismail Khan jailbreak on 30 July 2013, in which 175 prisoners were freed including 35 high-profile militants.
[7] On 11 July 2014, Adnan Rashid was reportedly captured along with three other militants by Pakistani security forces at his family residence near the town of Wana, South Waziristan.