Qari Saifullah Akhtar (Urdu: قاری سیف اللہ اختر; born 1960 – died 9 January 2017) was an alleged member of Al-Qaeda who was in Pakistani custody a few times prior to his death.
[4] Since 1998 when Osama bin Laden released a fatwa under the banner World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders, segments of HUJI have joined al-Qaeda.
"[7] However, the bench, consisting of Javed Iqbal and Mian Shakirullah Jan, ordered the government to submit comprehensive replies in the cases of several people, including that of Akhtar, who had been arrested on suspicion of terrorism.
"[9] According to the Dawn newspaper, Akhtar was arrested in Lahore on 26 February 2008 for his alleged involvement in the attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Karachi on 18 October 2007.
[13][14] The Afghan National Directorate of Security confirmed that Akhtar was killed in a raid in Nawa District, Ghazni Province on 9 January 2017.
[15] He was 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; his year of birth being listed as either 1964 or from 1963 to 1965, with a place of birth in Daraz Jaldak, Qalat District, Zabul Province, Afghanistan and a citizenship of Afghanistan and further address in Quetta, Pakistan.