Maulana Masood Azhar, the mastermind of the Kandahar plane hijack and the head of the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed, has said that 10 members of his family and 4 associates have been killed in the Indian attack in Bahawalpur. According to the BBC Urdu report, Masood Azhar issued a statement saying that I would have been lucky if I had also died. The dead include his elder sister and her husband, Masood Azhar’s nephew and his wife, a niece of Masood and her five children. The statement also said that three close associates of terrorist Masood have also been killed. Apart from these, the mother of an associate has also died. Apart from the Parliament attack, Azhar is also the mastermind of the Pathankot-Pulwama attack Apart from the Parliament attack, Azhar is also the mastermind of the Pathankot-Pulwama attack Azhar is responsible for not one but many terrorist attacks in India. Apart from the Parliament attack, Masood is also the mastermind of the Pathankot attack in 2016. According to the charge sheet of Delhi Police in this case, Masood used the cadre of Jaish-e-Mohammed for attacks on India. He also carried out attacks on Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya in 2005 and CRPF soldiers in Pulwama in 2019. Apart from this, Masood is also responsible for the Uri attack in 2016 and the attack on the Indian Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Masood Azhar came to India for the first time in 1994 Masood Azhar reached Delhi from Dhaka by boarding a plane from Bangladesh on January 29, 1994. In 1994, Azhar entered Srinagar by creating a fake identity. His aim was to reduce tension between Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen groups. Meanwhile, India arrested him from Anantnag for involvement in terrorist activities. Azhar had then said – Soldiers of Islam have come from 12 countries to liberate Kashmir. We will answer your carbine with a rocket launcher. Four years later, in July 1995, six foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers demanded the release of Masood Azhar in exchange for the tourists. Meanwhile, in August, two tourists managed to escape from the kidnappers’ custody. However, no information could be found about the rest. The Indian government released Azhar after the plane hijacking in 1999. On 24 December 1999, an Indian plane coming from Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked by Azhar’s brother and other terrorists. They took it to Kandahar in Afghanistan, where the Taliban was ruling at that time. There was a demand to release 3 terrorists including Masood Azhar in exchange for the people imprisoned in the plane. The terrorists’ demand was met and Masood was freed. After this, he fled to Pakistan. The Chinese government has saved Masood from being declared a global terrorist in the UNSC several times. In 2009, a proposal came for the first time to include Azhar in the list of global terrorists. Then for four consecutive times China did not let the proposal pass citing lack of evidence. Declared a global terrorist in 2019 In October 2016, China again went against India’s proposal and saved Azhar in the UNSC. After this, in 2017, America raised the demand of declaring Azhar a terrorist in the UNSC, but China again came in the way. Finally, in May 2019, China removed its obstruction and Masood was declared a global terrorist in the UNSC. ——————————– Read these news related to Operation Sindoor too… 9 terrorist training centers-launchpads of Pakistan destroyed in Indian attack: Hizbul’s training camp, Jaish’s biggest headquarters, Laden’s funded Markaz destroyed. In response to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Indian Air Force has carried out an airstrike in Pakistan, which the army has named Operation Sindoor. This action has been taken on the input of intelligence agency RAW. Read the full news here… World media on India’s Operation Sindoor: NYT said – threat of war between two nuclear powers, if not stopped then there will be dangerous consequences. India has attacked 9 terrorist hideouts in Pakistan exactly 15 days after the Pahalgam terrorist attack. These are the hideouts from where terrorist attacks on India were being plotted and executed. India has named it ‘Operation Sindoor’. Read the full news here…
