Masood Azhar: India's most wanted militant India Pakistan
Pakistan has detained 44 people as part of a crackdown on members of outlawed terror groups amid international pressure to take action following the recent outbreak of hostilities with India over Kashmir.
In 1994, the militant leader was arrested by Indian police in Kashmir while travelling in an auto rickshaw, a three-wheeled vehicle like the tuk-tuk in Thailand. "He was not a fighter. He was used for motivation and recruitment. He never completed his training in Afghanistan. We had sketchy details of the Pakistani group and he would fill in the blanks."His hatred for India came before he entered India and before he was arrested. But it multiplied several times after his incarceration.
Security analyst Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, said that JeM had proved to be a"most lethal organisation".Mr Mohananey said that Azhar, who was born in Bahawalpur in Pakistan, had the capacity to"rabble-rouse and generate religious hysteria" among the masses.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, in an interview with CNN last week, confirmed that Azhar is in Pakistan and is unwell.
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