The then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government released Azhar, Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar and Omar Sheikh in exchange for 154 passengers held hostage in Kandahar. However, Latif and several other names on the terrorists’ demand list were not released at that time.
Jaish-e-Mohammed is actively rebuilding its key Bahawalpur headquarters, Markaz Subhan Allah, 15 months after precision strikes during India’s Operation Sindoor extensively damaged the facility.
Azhar's been spewing anti-India rants for a long time. He's accused of being behind big attacks like the 2001 Parliament strike and the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
After facing a major setback in India’s Operation Sindoor, which destroyed its main headquarters at Markaz Subhanallah in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed...