Jaish-e-Mohammad chief and globally-designated terrorist Masood Azhar was arrested in India in 1994 and released after the Air India IC 814 hijack
10 family members of Jaish chief Masood Azhar killed in Operation Sindoor: Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar has claimed that 10 members of his family along with four aides were killed in the Operation Sindoor the Indian forces launched early Wednesday to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack, news agency PTI reported.
Globally-designated terrorist leader Azhar, who was arrested in India in 1994 and released after the Air India IC 814 hijack, said ten members of his family — his elder sister, her husband, a nephew and his wife, a niece, and five children from the extended family — were killed in the attack.
“Ten members of my family were blessed with this happiness together tonight… five are innocent children, my elder sister, her honorable husband. My scholar Fazil bhanje (nephew) and his wife and my beloved scholar Fazilah (bhanji) … my dear brother Huzaifah and his mother. Two more dear companions,” the PTI report stated.
Indian armed forces launched coordinated aerial strikes at nine terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Jammu & Kashmir on Wednesday, avenging the Pahalgam killings with the precision strikes killing at least 70 terrorists.
The well-coordinated attacks targeted terrorist bases, including Muridke and Bahawalpur which are strongholds of terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The operation was a response to the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which resulted in the deaths of 26 people, 25 of them Hindu tourists.
The Government of India, in a press briefing by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri along with two women officers Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, briefed the nation on the attacks on terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
During the press briefing, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi presented videos of destruction of terror camps while Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, said all nine terror sites were successfully destroyed, adding that locations were selected so that there was no damage to civilians and their infrastructures.
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