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Former Pakistan Foreign Minister and People’s Party (PPP) President Bilawal Bhutto said on Friday that Pakistan does not know the hideout of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s leader Masood Azhar. If India gives information that Azhar is in Pakistan, Pakistan will be happy to arrest it.
Masood Azhar has been involved in terrorist attacks like 2001 Parliament attacks in India, 26/11 Mumbai attacks, 2016 Pathankot attack and 2019 Pulwama attacks. The United Nations declared him a Global Terrorist in 2019.
In an interview to Al Jazeera, Bilawal said-Hafiz Saeed, the kingpin of Lashkar-e-Taiba, is not free. It is wrong that Hafiz Saeed Azad is in Pakistani custody.
Masood Azhar has been declared a global terrorist in 2019.
Bilawal said- Azhar will probably be in Afghanistan
Bilawal further said- We do not know about Masood Azhar where he is. We feel that he may probably be in Afghanistan. If the Government of India informs us that Azhar is in Pakistan, then we are ready to arrest him. But India is not doing this. “
He also said that the countries share information with each other to stop terrorism. We have done so to prevent attacks in London, New York and Pakistan. If Masood Azhar is in Afghanistan, then NATO could not catch him there. It is not possible for Pakistan to go and do this.
Azhar’s family was killed in Operation Sindoor
Bilawal’s statement came at a time when India destroyed many terrorist bases in Pakistan in Operation Sindoor two months ago. Masood Azhar’s family and 4 colleagues were killed in this attack.
According to media reports, Masood Azhar had issued a statement after this saying that if I had died, it would have been lucky. Those who died included her elder sister and her husband, Masood Azhar’s nephew and his wife, a niece of Masood and five of his children.
The statement also said that three close allies of terrorists Masood were also killed. Apart from these, the mother of a colleague also died.
India targeted the terrorist bases of Jaish -e -Mohammed in Pakistan on 7 May.
Azhar is the mastermind of the Parliament attack
Azhar is the mastermind of the 2001 Parliament attack. Apart from this, he was also involved in the 2016 Pathankot attack. According to the charge sheet of Delhi Police in this case, Masood used Jaish-e-Mohammed cadre for attacks on India. He also attacked Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya in 2005 and CRPF personnel in Pulwama in 2019.
Apart from this, Masood is also responsible for the Uri attack in 2016 and an attack on Indian conceulate in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Azhar al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban founder Mullah Omar were special.
Masood Azhar came to India for the first time in 1994
Masood Azhar first reached Delhi from Dhaka riding in aircraft from Bangladesh on January 29, 1994. In 1994, Azhar entered Srinagar by creating a fake identity. His aim was Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen groups to reduce tension.
Meanwhile, India arrested him from Anantnag for his involvement in terrorist activities. Then Azhar had said- Soldiers of Islam have come from 12 countries to liberate Kashmir. We will answer your carbine from rocket launcher.
4 years later, in July 1995, 6 foreign tourists were abducted in Jammu and Kashmir. Kidnappers demanded the release of Masood Azhar instead of tourist. Meanwhile, in August, two tourists managed to escape from the captivity of kidnappers. However, no information could be found about the rest.
Government of India left Azhar after aircraft hijack in 1999
The picture is in 1999, when the terrorists hijacked an aircraft in India and took them to Afghanistan.
On 24 December 1999, an Indian aircraft coming from Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked by other terrorists including Azhar’s brother. He took it to Kandahar in Afghanistan, where the Taliban ruled at that time. In lieu of the people imprisoned in the aircraft, there was a demand to release 3 terrorists, including Masood Azhar.
The demand of the terrorists was fulfilled and Masood became independent. After this he fled to Pakistan. The Chinese government has saved Masood many times from being declared a global terralerist in UNSC. In 2009, the first proposal came to include Azhar in the list of global terrorists. Then 4 consecutive times, China did not allow the proposal to pass, citing the lack of evidence.
Global terrorist declared in 2019
In October 2016, China went against India’s proposal and saved Azhar in UNSC. After this, in 2017, the US raised the demand to declare Azhar as a terrorist in UNSC, but China again came in the middle. Finally, in May, China had removed the obstacle and UNSC declared Masood Azhar a global terralerist in 2019.
