New Delhi:
The BJP has claimed that Abdul Rauf Azhar, the youthful brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, was among the many terrorists killed as India struck terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir beneath Operation Sindoor yesterday. India yesterday launched precision airstrikes at 9 places in Pakistan and PoK in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror assault during which 26 innocents have been murdered in chilly blood. Certainly one of these places was the Jaish headquarters in Bahawalpur.
The BJP put out a social media publish with Abdul Rauf Azhar’s picture and “eradicated” written on it.
Abdul Rauf Azhar, a most-wanted terrorist, was the mastermind of the hijack of Indian Airways IC 814 in Kandahar in 1999. He was concerned within the Pathankot terror assault and the 2001 assault on Parliament.
Within the IC 814 hijack, an India Airways airplane flying from Kathmandu to Delhi with 190 individuals on board, was diverted to Kandahar and the Indian authorities was compelled to launch three terrorists in change for the discharge of the passengers — one in every of them was Masood Azhar.
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– भारतीय संसद आतंकी हमला#OperationSindoor में मारा गया मोस्ट वांटेड पाकिस्तानी आतंकी अब्दुल रऊफ अजहर। pic.twitter.com/NKuRwptldH— BJP (@BJP4India) Could 8, 2025
A press release attributed to Masood Azhar had stated yesterday that 10 members of his household and 4 of his aides have been killed when India focused Jaish-e-Mohammed headquarters, Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah, in Bahawalpur.
“Ten members of my household have been blessed with this happiness collectively tonight… 5 are harmless youngsters, my elder sister, her honorable husband. My scholar Fazil bhanje (nephew) and his spouse and my beloved scholar Fazilah (niece) … my pricey brother Huzaifah and his mom. Two extra pricey companions,” the assertion stated, saying that these killed have turn out to be the visitors of Allah.
The assertion stated Masood Azhar feels “neither remorse nor despair” over the deaths. “Quite, it involves my coronary heart repeatedly that I too would have joined this fourteen-member completely happy caravan. Time for his or her departure had come, however the Lord didn’t kill them,” it stated.