Operation Sindoor: India's strikes kill IC-814 hijacking mastermind

Indian Armed Forces launched a strike on May 7 targeting nine terror infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir PoK under Operation SindoorThe Operation Sindoor resulted in the elimination of key terror operatives including Mohammad Yusuf Azhar the brotherinlaw of JaisheMohammad chief Masood Azhar according to sourcesAccording to sources Yusuf Azhar a key member of the proscribed terrorist organisation JaisheMohammad JeM was responsible for handling weapons training for JeM operatives and was involved in multiple terrorist attacks in Jammu amp KashmirAzhar was also involved in the conspiracy to hijack Indian Airlines aircraft IC814 from Kathmandu Nepal to Delhi A Red Corner notice number A56562000 was issued against himJudea Pearl father of JewishAmerican Journalist Daniel Pearl who was beheaded on camera in 2002 by terrorists clarified reports of Azhars death and his connection to his sons murderI want to thank all of you who reached out to me today in response to the news that Indias military forces have eliminated Abdul Rauf Azhar a man described as responsible for the kidnapping and murder of my son Daniel I want to clarify Azhar was a Pakistani extremist and leader of the terrorist organisation JaisheMohammed While his group was not directly involved in the plot to abduct Danny it was indirectly responsible Azhar orchestrated the hijacking that led to the release of Omar Sheikh the man who lured Danny into captivity Sheikh was later sentenced to death but ultimately released from prison and kept in a Government Safe House Pearl said in a post on XFormer Journalist and colleague of Daniel Pearl at USbased Wall Street Journal Asra Nomani hailed Indias recent Operation Sindoor in Bahawalpur which she revealed the place used by Pakistan for its homegrown terroristsIn a post on X Nomani said that when India started its action against Pakistan she had only one citys name that was BahawalpurI still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that towns name in late January 2002 For the 23 years since I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city Bahawalpur in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in Indias Kashmir state I had one citys name on my lips Bahawalpur Nomani saidMy friend WSJ reporter Danny Pearl went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen Gen Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistans militant groups after a strike by Pakistans terrorists against the Parliament in India and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur He literally knocked on their doors Nomani recalledAsra Nomani further mentioned that the militant training camps were open for business in BahawalpurOn January 23 2002 Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi Pakistan for an interview I learned that Dannys fixer Asif Farooqi had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named Arif Danny didnt know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group Harkutul Mujahadeen What was Arifs hometown Bahawalpur The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur We learned Arifs family faked a funeral for Arif Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad across the country from Pakistans border with Kashmir It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities the Journalist saidAsra Nomani recalled that Daniel was handed off to Omar Sheikh a BritishPakistani dropout from the London School of Economics radicalised in the 1990s in London mosquesOmar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar whose family was allegedly killed this week by Indias air strike in Bahawalpur Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist freed from Indias jails No Pakistans military and intelligence gave them safe passage They used them as weapons against India But these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan like civil society activists Benazir Bhutto Punjab Governor Salman Taseer schoolchildren and countless others Nomani saidTheir extremism has ruined Pakistan and Pakistanis cant blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s she assertedHailing Operation Sindoor further Asra said that India is doing a strategic attack on terrorist bases which Pakistan itself should have eliminatedPakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases for even the safety of its people What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir she saidBahawalpur is home to the Markaz Subhan Allah a key JaisheMohammad JeM facility that has been active since 2015Serving as the groups primary hub for training indoctrination and operations it also functions as JeMs operational headquarters The centre has been linked to multiple terror plots including the February 14 2019 Pulwama attack It houses the residences of JeM founder Maulana Masood Azhar de facto leader Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar Maulana Ammar and other members of Azhars familyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoeveratOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params