Abdul Rehman Makki

Abdul Rehman Makki (; 1948 or 10 December 1954 – 27 December 2024) was a Pakistani radical Islamist and the second-in-command and the political and foreign affairs head of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the front organisation of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) where he served as the Naib Ameer. Saeed, Makki's cousin, is married to his sister, while Makki is married to Saeed's sister. He started a business in Mecca and also taught at Umm al-Qura, and in 1992 released a book showing how fedayeen operations are not suicide attacks.

Militancy career Abdul Rehman Makki, alongside Hafiz Saeed, was working for Difa-e-Pakistan Council (Pakistan Defence Council) which was established to defend the interests of Pakistan and to agitate against the drone attacks in Waziristan, Pakistan. DPC, in its own words, is against the war in Afghanistan. It has also protested against the NATO supplies going through Pakistan.

Makki was in proximity to al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri and is also said to have been connected to Taliban's supreme commander Mullah Omar and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (Osama bin Laden's teacher), while a lecturer at the International Islamic University in Islamabad in the 1980s during the Afghan jihad where he is said to have travelled. He was fluent in Arabic and English and was popular in Pakistan for his anti-India speeches.

After the 2008 Mumbai attacks by LeT, the United States Department of the Treasury designated Makki as a Specially Designated International Terrorist. It listed his address in Muridke, the headquarters of LeT. The Rewards for Justice Terror List had an announced reward of up to $2 million for information leading to the location of Makki.

Pakistan's foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar has said that they would need hard evidence to prosecute Hafiz Saeed and his allies such as Makki.

In 2020, an Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan convicted Makki of terror financing and sentenced him to jail but this was commuted to a fine by another court. India and the US had wanted Makki to be sanctioned as a global terrorist back in 2022, but the designation had then been blocked by China.

Death Makki died of a heart attack in Lahore, on 27 December 2024. He had been suffering from heart disease and diabetes and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Lahore. Makki's funeral prayers were led by Hafiz Saeed's son Talha Saeed at the Markaz-e-Taiba in Muridke and he was buried at the local graveyard in Nangal Sahdan.