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Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf
bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
chief Maulana Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...has accepted that the six gunnies who attacked the Pathankot airbase belonged to his group.
Azahar owned the Death Eaters a day after India told Islamabad that he was among the four handlers of the attack in Pakistain.
Uploading an audio on the internet, the Jaish-e-Mohammabd Chief described how the Death Eaters intruded into the sensitive air base of Pathankot to destroy vital IAF assets and fought the Indian artillery and security forces to achieve their aim.
Warning Pak government against accepting any dossier or proof regarding the Pathankot airbase attack from the Indian government , Masood Azhar asked, "why are Pak leaders bashful and bow to Indian leaders?"
This is the second audio of Azhar released in two months. In the first audio, he had pledged 'Jihad" against India.
In the investigation conducted by the Indian defence forces into the Pathankot airbase attack, the names of Masood Azhar and his brother Rauf have surfaced along with two others.
Four Pak handlers have also been identified who were issuing directions to the faceless myrmidons holed up inside the Pathankot airbase.Two other conspirators, apart from Azhar and Rauf, have been identified as Ashfaq and Kasim.
Rauf was the man behind the hijacking of Indian aircraft IC-814 to Kandhar in which three Pak terrorists, including Masood Azhar, were released in exchange of passengers.
Investigative agencies have come to know that the attack was plotted near the border at a place called Makarz . India has already handed over all the evidence to Pakistain in this regard.