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Ajmal Kasab

1987 - 2012

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Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab (Urdu: اجمل قصاب; 13 July 1987 – 21 November 2012) was a Pakistani terrorist and a member of the Islamist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba through which he took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in Maharashtra, India. Kasab, alongside fellow Lashkar-e-Taiba recruit Ismail Khan, killed 72 people during the attacks, most of them at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ajmal Kasab has received more than 4,101,446 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Ajmal Kasab is the 273rd most popular extremist (down from 228th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 148th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Pakistani Extremist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ajmal Kasabs by language

Over the past year Ajmal Kasab has had the most page views in the with 443,871 views, followed by Russian (60,325), and Hindi (24,942). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Polish (38.92%), Vietnamese (37.74%), and Azerbaijani (35.98%)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ajmal Kasab ranks 273 out of 283. Before him are Waleed al-Shehri, Hakimullah Mehsud, Colin Pitchfork, Beverley Allitt, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and Atefeh Sahaaleh. After him are Monster of Florence, Tommy Robinson, Fazlullah, Omar Mateen, Richard B. Spencer, and Omar Khadr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Ajmal Kasab ranks 705. Before him are Hideto Takahashi, Rebecca Sugar, Marco Andretti, Isaac Promise, Hripsime Khurshudyan, and Matthew Ebden. After him are Dani Abalo, Jordi Figueras, Liang Wenbo, Pavao Pervan, Carlos Lampe, and Yu Hai. Among people deceased in 2012, Ajmal Kasab ranks 515. Before him are Mika Yamamoto, Johnny Lewis, Leslie Carter, Miki Roqué, Hollie Stevens, and Samia Yusuf Omar. After him are Jorge Andrés Boero, Andrew Breitbart, Jaspal Bhatti, Tony Greig, Sarah Burke, and Doris Singleton.

Others Born in 1987

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Ajmal Kasab ranks 176 out of 217. Before him are Prithipal Singh (1932), Mukhtar Mai (1972), Chris Anderson (1957), Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (1978), Iman Vellani (2002), and Shahid Afridi (1980). After him are Mohsin Hamid (1971), Jahangir Khan (1963), Maryam Nawaz (1973), Fazlullah (1974), Inzamam-ul-Haq (1970), and Ghazala Javed (1988).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Pakistan

Among extremists born in Pakistan, Ajmal Kasab ranks 5. Before him are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Javed Iqbal (1961), Baitullah Mehsud (1974), and Hakimullah Mehsud (1979). After him are Fazlullah (1974).

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