Masood Azhar dead? India's most-wanted terrorist & Jaish-E-Mohammad chief killed in bomb blast in Pakistan: Reports

NewsBharati    01-Jan-2024 14:41:52 PM
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Bahawalpur, Jan 1: In a major development, India's most-wanted terrorist and Jaish-E-Mohammad chief  Maulana Masood Azhar on Monday was killed in a bomb explosion, according to media reports.
 
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As per reports, Jaish-E-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was killed in a bomb explosion by 'Unknown Men' at 5 am while going back from Bahawalpur mosque. However, official confirmation is yet to come.
 
It is pertinent to mention that Maulana Masood Azhar was the chief of the terrorist outfit Jaish-E-Mohammad.
 


Azhar was born in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan on 10 July 1968. Notably, Masood Azhar was among the terrorists who were demanded to be released after the hijacking of an Indian Airlines Flight 814 (IC814). Masood Azhar had also orchestrated the terror attack on the Parliament on December 13, 2001.
 
Reports suggest that he used to live under the protective custody of the Pakistani deep state in Islamabad. The 55-year-old terrorist seldom travelled to his seminary, Markaz-e-Usman-o-Ali, on the Railway Link road in Bahawalpur Pakistan.
 
Charge-sheeted by the Delhi Police in the 2001 Parliament attack and the 2016 Pathankot airbase attack by the Punjab Police, Azhar has used JeM cadre to mount brutal terror attacks on India, including attack on Ram Janambhoomi temple in Ayodhya on July 5, 2005 and the Pulwama attack on CRPF troopers on February 14, 2019. He also directed an attack on the Indian Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif in Balk in Afghanistan on January 3, 2016. He was a close ally of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban founder Mullah Omar.