Salamullah Tipu
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Salamullah Tipu was a notorious Pakistani leftist student leader and terrorist.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed] After assassinating an IJT leader,[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] However, 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.[citation needed]