How Deoband orator became Al-Qaeda’s Maulana Asim Umar

SAMBHAL: He left home in 1998 after his father refused to give him money to go to Saudi Arabia.
Almost 20 years later, local intelligence officials informed Asim Umar”s family of his death in an US-Afghan joint operation in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Umar, head of Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), was born Sana-ul-Haq in Deep Sarai locality of Sambhal district in the mid-seventies. The family is not sure of his exact date of birth.
1/2: BREAKING: #NDS can now confirm the death of Asim Omar, leader of #Al_Qaeda in the #Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), in a joint US-Afghan raid on a Taliban compound in Musa Qala district of Helmand province on Sep. 23. pic.twitter.com/sFKi38M6MC — NDS Afghanistan (@NDSAfghanistan) October 8, 2019 Studied At Deoband According to family sources, who do not wish to be named, Sana-ul-Haq, known as Shanno in the family, did his graduation from the renowned Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom Deoband, but the seminary categorically denies having any student by that name.
“We have thoroughly checked our records and did not find any alumnus by the name of Sana-ul-Haq,” said Ashraf Usmani, spokesperson, Darul Uloom.
2/2: Omar, a #Pakistani citizen, was #killed along with six other AQIS members, most of them Pakistani. Among them was Raihan, Omar’s courier to Ayman #Al_Zawahiri . They had been embedded inside the Taliban compound in the #Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. pic.twitter.com/7jQF7bK7aD — NDS Afghanistan (@NDSAfghanistan) October 8, 2019 Apparently, the seminary does not wish to have any connection with a terrorist.