Faridkot
Faridkot is located in Pakistan
Faridkot
Faridkot
Coordinates: 30°41′26″N 73°41′40″E / 30.69056°N 73.69444°E / 30.69056; 73.69444
ProvincePunjab
Elevation
167 m (548 ft)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)

Faridkot (Urdu: فرید کوٹ) is a village in Depalpur Tehsil in the Okara District of the Punjab province of Pakistan. The village has been a fertile recruiting ground for Lashkar-e-Taiba; Ajmal Kasab, a perpetrator of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, belonged from Faridkot.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Shah, Saeed (7 December 2008). "Revealed: home of Mumbai's gunman in Pakistan village". The Observer. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
  2. ↑ "BBC report confirms Indian charge of Pakistan links to Mumbai attacks". The Hindu. 7 December 2008. Archived from the original on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
  3. ↑ Newspaper, the (21 November 2012). "The unending Faridkot mystery". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
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