Islamabad: According to the reports, Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar is dead.Hopwever, Pakistan's government is yet to make the official claim.
According to reports from Pakistan, Azhar was seriously injured during the air strike carried out by the IAF.
Masood Azhar was the founder and leader of the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed which was active mainly in the PoK and took the responsibility of the Pulwama attack.
Recently, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi during an interview to CNN had said that JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar is in Pakistan but is very unwell. Azhar’s group was responsible for the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF jawans were martyred.
Earlier Indian Air Force fighters crossed the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday and dropped 1000 kilogramme bombs destroying a JeM terrorist camp based in Pakistan. The attack was launched by 12 Mirage fighters which reached Balakot, a town in Mansehra district in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Earlier, Indian Airlines Flight 814 (IC 814) was hijacked by Harkat-ul-Mujahideen with tacit support from Pakistan's ISI to free Azhar and two other terrorists who were in Indian custody. In an official statement, India said that JeM has been responsible for a series of terrorist attacks including on Parliament attack and the Pathankot airbase attack.