New Delhi:
The BJP has claimed that Abdul Rauf Azhar, the younger brother of Jai-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, was killed among the slain terrorists as India killed the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir yesterday under Operation Sindhor. India yesterday launched accurate airstrikes at nine places in Pakistan and poked in vengeance for the Pahgam terror attack, killing 26 innocents in cold blood. One of these places was Jaish headquarters in Bahawalpur.
The BJP, with a picture of Abdul Rauf Azhar, posted a social media post and “finished” on it.
Abdul Rauf Azhar, one of the most wanted terrorists, was the mastermind of the kidnapping of the Indian Airlines IC 814 in Kandahar in 1999. He was involved in the Pathankot terror attack and the 2001 attack on Parliament.
In the IC 814 kidnapping, an Bharat Airlines aircraft flying from Kathmandu to Delhi with 190 people was taken to Kandahar and the Indian government was forced to release three terrorists in return for the release of passengers – one of them was Masood Azhar.
A statement to Masood Azhar said yesterday that 10 members of his family and four of his colleagues were killed when India targeted the Jaish-e-Mohammed headquarters, Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah in the restoration.
“Ten members of my family were blessed with this joy tonight … There are five innocent children, my elder sister, her honorable husband. My scholar Fazil nephew (nephew) and his wife and my beloved scholar Fazilah (niece) … My dear brother Hujifah and his mother. Two more friends.
The statement said that Masood Azhar finds “neither regret nor disappointment” on deaths. “Rather, it comes to my heart again and again that I too must have joined this fourteen-member happy caravan. The time had come for him to leave, but Prabhu did not kill him,” said this.
