Maulana Masood Azhar, the founder of terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), has suffered a heart attack, reported News 18. The news report said that he was being shifted to get treatment in Pakistan. Masood Azhar was freed by India after hijackers of IC-814 plane demanded his release in December 1999.
Masood Azhar then set up Jaish-e-Mohammed, a terror outfit that has been involved in countless acts of terror in India. The network also aided planning of 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
News 18 reported that Masood Azhar was in Khost province of Afghanistan when he suffered heart attack. He is now being moved to Pakistan and will be treated in Karachi. Experts doctors are reportedly being flown from Islamabad to Karachi to treat Masood Azhar.
Jaish-e-Mohammed is one of the many terrorist organisations India has been accusing Pakistan of providing safe haven to. Although Pakistan has denied this, numerous instances and even evidence with India has shown Pakistani state’s links with terror outfits.
India has always said unequivocally that Pakistan uses terrorism as a ‘instrument of foreign policy’.
Masood Azhar, born in 1968, is one of the lynchpins of terror network Pakistan has developed. Jaish-e-Mohammed has already been blacklisted by the United Nations, but this has not stopped the Pakistani state from supporting the terror network.
JeM has been responsible for many terror attacks in India. It has even been involved in terrorist activities in the US, Australia, Canada and UK.
