The World Opinion

Tag: Masood Azhar

  • Jaish-e-Mohammad leader Masood Azhar now not in Afghanistan, can perform in Pakistan, says Taliban

    Afghanistan’s Taiban govt on Wednesday firmly rejected media reviews in regards to the presence of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Masood Azhar within the war-torn nation, pronouncing such terrorist organisations can perform on Pakistan’s soil — or even below reliable patronage.

    The Taliban’s meantime Afghan govt spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid made the strongly-worded remarks after a bit of Pakistani media reported about Azhar’s alleged presence in Afghanistan. They claimed that Pakistan has additionally despatched a letter with a requirement handy him over to Islamabad.

    “Now we have written a one-page letter to the Afghan overseas ministry, asking them to find, file and arrest Masood Azhar, as we consider that he’s hiding someplace in (jap Nangarhar province) Afghanistan,” The Information reported on Tuesday, quoting a best Pakistani overseas ministry reliable.

    Mujahid in an interview with Afghanistan’s ToloNews stated that he has noticed the inside track within the media. “However this isn’t true. No one has made this type of call for from us,” Mujahid stated.

    “Jaish-e-Mohammad leader isn’t in Afghanistan. Such organisations can perform on Pakistan’s soil – or even below reliable patronage,” Mujahid stated. “We’ll now not permit any person to make use of Afghanistan’s soil towards another nation.”

    Video: Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid denied that Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Maulan Masood Azhar is in Afghanistan, and stated he’s in Pakistan.
    Pakistani media reported that Pakistan’s MoFA in a letter requested the Islamic Emirate to seek out and arrest Azhar.#TOLOnews percent.twitter.com/CSAWHddWP2

    — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) September 14, 2022

    In a separate commentary, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the Taliban govt additionally rejected media reviews that JeM leader had sought safe haven in Afghanistan.

    “We reiterate that the IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) does now not permit any armed opposition in its territory to perform towards another nation,” stated Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the Taliban govt.

    “Additionally, we ask all events to chorus from making baseless claims in such instances with out paperwork and proof,” he stated, caution that such media claims can negatively impact bilateral family members.

    Azhar is a fugitive launched through India in change for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airways aircraft IC-814 in 1999. He was once serving a jail time period in India for kidnappings of Western vacationers within the nation.

    After his liberate in 1999, Azhar shaped the JeM and scripted many audacious terror moves in India.

    Pakistan has banned the JeM which is accused through India of a number of terrorist assaults, together with the Pulwama assault in February 2019, which introduced Pakistan and India to the edge of a nuclear change.

    In Would possibly 2019, the United Countries designated Azhar a “international terrorist” after China lifted its hang on an offer to blacklist the Pakistan-based JeM leader, a decade after New Delhi approached the arena frame for the primary time at the factor.

    The UN committee indexed Azhar on Would possibly 1, 2019 as being related to Al-Qaeda for “collaborating within the financing, making plans, facilitating, getting ready, or perpetrating of acts or actions through, along with, below the identify of, on behalf of, or in improve of”, “supplying, promoting or moving fingers and similar subject material to”, “recruiting for”, “in a different way supporting acts or actions of”, and “different acts or actions indicating affiliation with” the JeM.

  • India born former Masood Azhar aide may well be going separate tactics

    A Hyderabad born former key supervisor of Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) may now be taking a separate trail, clear of the strategies lengthy dictated via the previous regime headed via Masood Azhar and his brother Abdul Rauf Azhar.

    In keeping with new research of not too long ago created social media accounts, Farhatullah Ghauri—a key JeM operative, has been the usage of a community of on-line belongings to magnify terrorist propaganda calling on Indian Muslims to riot.

    Frequently recognized as ‘Ustad’ a number of the JeM ranks, Ghauri left India for Dubai within the mid 90s when he was once about 30 years previous. In keeping with intelligence inputs, Ghauri—a follower of JeM leader Azhar, later moved to Rawalpindi in Pakistan and has been a key participant in making plans and plotting violent assaults in India since then. The JeM operative has been believed to go through a number of surgical procedures right through his keep in Dubai to give protection to his identification.

    The file issues out a suspected concerted strive via a web based community related to Ghauri, continuously noticed posting movies in Fb teams and pages devoted to socialism, Islam, and minority rights in India. “Those teams are frequented via higher, extra mainstream audiences of home customers who’re crucial of the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) dominated executive”, Ayushman Kaul, Senior Risk Intelligence Analyst at Logically seen within the file.

    The file analysed 3 Telegram channels, two related Fb pages, and 3 YouTube channels operated via the crowd and spotted that the phobia propaganda amplified by way of the ones channels consisted of professionally edited movies with voice-overs via Ghauri.

    DEVIATING FROAM OLD JeM PATH

    Even if JeM’s standard conversation type has been the usage of the social media platforms, there are particular contrasting variations that make Ghauri’s renewed marketing campaign seem to be breaking the development from the established JeM campaigns. JeM’s conversation has been targeted on its mouthpiece Al-Qalam—a weekly paper printed each Wednesday from Peshawar.

    The mag featured a typical column via Masood Azhar who wrote below the pen identify, Sadi. It additionally featured write ups and info-graphics via different key JeM ideologues. Azhar’s key confidant Maulana Talha Saif was once tasked to file readout of Azhar’s message that was once circulated over social and virtual media channels.

    Following the February 2019 Indian Air Drive airstrikes on Balakot, the mag paused newsletter of its print copies.

    Alternatively, within the following weeks, a brand new mag named ‘Medina-Medina’ was once floated via the crowd. The content material of the brand new mag has been extra taken with spiritual preaching than lack the sooner political tone of Al-Qalam.

    JeM’s social media wings, steadily use snippets of Masood Azhar’s previous audio recordings, maximum recorded earlier than yr 2015 and create contemporary multimedia propaganda subject material. Rauf remains to be the operational head of the organisation and is the second one maximum heard chief within the JeM propaganda. Talha Saif is every other distinguished voice who’s steadily featured within the terror organisation’s propaganda.

    JeM additionally attempted to sneak a proxy cellular app that was once got rid of from Google play retailer in October 2021.

    The marketing campaign development mapped via Logically, suggests a deviation from the established JeM conversation type. The manufacturing taste is visibly other from the standard JeM multimedia content material and appears nearer to the marketing campaign connected to the Inter-Products and services Public Members of the family (ISPR)—the media and exposure wing of the Pakistan military.

    Ghauri’s social media and virtual belongings have have shyed away from appearing affiliations with the JeM too. JeM’s standard manner has been to unswervingly conflict with the Indian executive and any Pakistani parts that would possibly oppose violence in Jammu and Kashmir and different portions of India. Ghauri’s social media outreach is a extra subtle data marketing campaign that fits with the recognized data campaigns related to the Pakistani established order and intelligence businesses.

    “Pakistan-backed proxy terror teams will even search to capitalize at the conflict between communal teams and those off-line incidents of unrest and incorporate them into propaganda movies. Those movies are then disseminated throughout primary social media platforms in a bid to foster the following era of home-grown extremists”, Kaul cautioned in his file.

    — ENDS —

  • Who’s Rauf Azhar? All you wish to have to learn about Jaish terrorist whose footprints found in Kandahar hijacking to Pulwama assault

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Abdul Rauf Azhar, within the information after China blocked an offer on the UN to blacklist him, is thought to be one of the vital major conspirators of the IC-814 Kandahar hijacking of 1999 and likewise the Pulwama assault that killed 40 CRPF staff in 2019.

    Since 1999, Rauf Azhar, brother of Jaish leader Masood Azhar, has emerged because the grasp of optics with regards to orchestrating maximum audacious assaults on Indian institutions that grabbed eyeballs around the globe together with the 2001 assault on Parliament when a consultation used to be on, the 2005 assault on makeshift Ayodhya Ram temple, and the 2016 assault on ahead base of IAF in Pathankot amongst others.

    Designated as a ‘international terrorist’ via america in 2010, Rauf Azhar sprung at the terror map in 1999 when the Indian Airways flight IC-814 from Tribhuvan Global Airport of Kathmandu to Delhi used to be hijacked and brought to Taliban-controlled Kandhar on December 24.

    Because the hijacking saga got here to an finish on December 31, 1999, safety companies known Rauf Azhar as one of the vital major conspirators who had hatched the plot to protected the discharge of his brother Masood Azhar from Kot Balwal prison of Jammu, inflicting embarrassment to Indian govt.

    The assaults deliberate via Rauf Azhar nearly introduced India and Pakistan on the point of a struggle on a minimum of on two events — the Parliament assault and suicide assault at the CRPF convoy.

    ALSO READ | Row over UN proposal to blacklist Masood Azhar’s brother: Disagreement breaks out between US, China

    India had answered with largest army mobilisation after 1971 referred to as Operation Parakram after the Parliament misadventure whilst after the CRPF convoy assault, Induia performed a goal air strike on terrorist camps in Pakistan’s Balakot crippling the backbone of JeM.

    Collection of Purple Nook Notices from Interpol in reference to those assaults are pending in opposition to 48-year-old Rauf Azhar who’s ensconced within the protection of Pakistan status quo.

    Consistent with an Interpol understand, Rauf Azhar is sought after for waging, or making an attempt to salary struggle, or abetting waging of struggle, in opposition to govt of India, assaulting the president, governor, and so forth, with intent to compel or restrain the workout of any lawful energy but even so being member of terrorist gang or organisation amongst different offences.

    A video of Rauf Azhar which used to be uploaded on a web site in Pakistan, the place he might be observed claiming duty for the Pathankot assault and complimenting his boys for it, used to be despatched to Interpol.

    The video used to be later got rid of and the web site additionally vanished.

    Rauf Azhar, who used to be tagged via america as ‘Specifically Designated World Terrorist’ in 2010, used to be the executive of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2007 when his elder brother Masood Azhar used to be stored at an undisclosed vacation spot via the ISI within the wake of global power.

    China has blocked an offer via america and India on the UN to blacklist Rauf Azhar, the second one such transfer via Beijing in lower than two months.

    NEW DELHI: Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Abdul Rauf Azhar, within the information after China blocked an offer on the UN to blacklist him, is thought to be one of the vital major conspirators of the IC-814 Kandahar hijacking of 1999 and likewise the Pulwama assault that killed 40 CRPF staff in 2019.

    Since 1999, Rauf Azhar, brother of Jaish leader Masood Azhar, has emerged because the grasp of optics with regards to orchestrating maximum audacious assaults on Indian institutions that grabbed eyeballs around the globe together with the 2001 assault on Parliament when a consultation used to be on, the 2005 assault on makeshift Ayodhya Ram temple, and the 2016 assault on ahead base of IAF in Pathankot amongst others.

    Designated as a ‘international terrorist’ via america in 2010, Rauf Azhar sprung at the terror map in 1999 when the Indian Airways flight IC-814 from Tribhuvan Global Airport of Kathmandu to Delhi used to be hijacked and brought to Taliban-controlled Kandhar on December 24.

    Because the hijacking saga got here to an finish on December 31, 1999, safety companies known Rauf Azhar as one of the vital major conspirators who had hatched the plot to protected the discharge of his brother Masood Azhar from Kot Balwal prison of Jammu, inflicting embarrassment to Indian govt.

    The assaults deliberate via Rauf Azhar nearly introduced India and Pakistan on the point of a struggle on a minimum of on two events — the Parliament assault and suicide assault at the CRPF convoy.

    ALSO READ | Row over UN proposal to blacklist Masood Azhar’s brother: Disagreement breaks out between US, China

    India had answered with largest army mobilisation after 1971 referred to as Operation Parakram after the Parliament misadventure whilst after the CRPF convoy assault, Induia performed a goal air strike on terrorist camps in Pakistan’s Balakot crippling the backbone of JeM.

    Collection of Purple Nook Notices from Interpol in reference to those assaults are pending in opposition to 48-year-old Rauf Azhar who’s ensconced within the protection of Pakistan status quo.

    Consistent with an Interpol understand, Rauf Azhar is sought after for waging, or making an attempt to salary struggle, or abetting waging of struggle, in opposition to govt of India, assaulting the president, governor, and so forth, with intent to compel or restrain the workout of any lawful energy but even so being member of terrorist gang or organisation amongst different offences.

    A video of Rauf Azhar which used to be uploaded on a web site in Pakistan, the place he might be observed claiming duty for the Pathankot assault and complimenting his boys for it, used to be despatched to Interpol.

    The video used to be later got rid of and the web site additionally vanished.

    Rauf Azhar, who used to be tagged via america as ‘Specifically Designated World Terrorist’ in 2010, used to be the executive of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2007 when his elder brother Masood Azhar used to be stored at an undisclosed vacation spot via the ISI within the wake of global power.

    China has blocked an offer via america and India on the UN to blacklist Rauf Azhar, the second one such transfer via Beijing in lower than two months.