Salamullah Tipu
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Salamullah Tipu was a notorious Pakistani leftist student leader and terrorist.
Hailing from 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. After assassinating an IJT leader, 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. However, by 1984, Tipu's wild antics had become to be seen as a threat by the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul and Murtaza and he was thrown into a Kabul jail. He was secretly hanged by the Afghan authorities in 1984.
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