Maulana Masood Azhar, India's most wanted terrorist, founded the dreaded terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad in January 2000. CNN-IBN's Special Investigation has now learnt that he runs a terror training camp in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir at Balakot on the Manasera Road. Given below are Masood's ISI-trained instructors:Abu Jindal to operate Kalashnikov gunsThree years ago, Masood was isolated for the likely involvement of Jaish members in a plot to assassinate Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf. But today he is back in business. “Well, Azhar has undergone a certain decline in prestige after the December 2003 attacks on Musharraf but he represents a fairly lethal organisation and once again has been rehabilitated and is enjoying complete freedom of movement in Pakistan,” says Executive Director, Institute of Conflict Management, Ajai Sahni.
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Masood, arrested in 1994 in Kashmir, was released during the hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 which was taken to Kandahar. Within months, his terror outfit the Jaish-e-Mohammad was back to attacking India. In October 2001, three Jaish terrorists attack the J&K Assembly complex killing 42 unarmed civilians. In December, 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by five Jaish terrorists. The attack brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. In November, 2005, a Jaish suicide bomber exploded a car bomb hours before the swearing in of Ghulam Nabi Azad as J&K Chief Minister.
“JeM is a very significant organisation as far as terrorism in India is concerned,” says Sahni. The Jaish is now also being linked with al Qaeda. London police arrested suspects that they claim were plotting to blow up 10 US-bound aircraft. Also involved was Jaish terrorist Rashid Rauf - a British citizen living in Pakistan, who is also Masood Azhar's brother in-law.
Despite the fact that Masood has been linked to the Al Qaeda and with an assassination attempt on Musharraf, he and the Jaish-e-Mohammed find safe haven in Pakistan. It is felt that as long as he delivers on the agenda to destabilise India, he will be tolerated.