Salamullah Tipu

Salamullah Tipu was a notorious Pakistani leftist student leader and terrorist.Fact|date=February 2007

Born to a lower-middle-class family in Karachi, Pakistan, Tipu joined the left-wing National Students Federation at a Karachi college in the seventies and then the Pakistan Peoples Party's student wing, Peoples Students Federation at the University of Karachi. He was notorious for his violent methods of dealing with right-wing opponents, especially the Jamaat-e-Islami's student organization.Fact|date=February 2007After assassinating an IJT leader,Fact|date=February 2007 Tipu escaped to Kabul where he joined Murtaza Bhutto's Al-Zulfiqar organization in 1980.

Tipu was then used by Murtaza to lead the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines plane from Peshawar to Karachi in 1981.Fact|date=February 2007However, by 1984, Tipu's wild antics had become to be seen as a threat both by the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul and by Murtaza, and he was thrown into a Kabul jail. He was secretly hanged by the Afghan authorities in 1984.Fact|date=February 2007

See also

*Al-Zulfiqar
*Murtaza Bhutto
*Raja Anwar
*National Students Federation

External links

* [http://www.desistuff.co.uk/Confirm.asp?id=000681]