JeM chief Masood Azhar to be arrested? Pakistan anti-terrorism courtroom points warrant

Image Source : FILE PHOTO Masood Azhar is believed to be hiding in a “safe place” in his native city – Bahawalpur.
In a big improvement, an anti-terrorism courtroom in Pakistan on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar on the fees of terror financing.
The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala issued the warrant throughout a listening to in a terror financing case instituted by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police in opposition to some members of the JeM.
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“ATC Gujranwala judge Natasha Naseem Supra issued an arrest warrant for Masood Azhar and directed the CTD to arrest him and present him in the court. The CTD told the judge the JeM chief was involved in terror financing and selling jihadi literature,” an official instructed PTI.
He mentioned the ATC choose issued the arrest warrant for Azhar on the request of a CTD inspector.
Masood Azhar hiding in Bahawalpur
Azhar is believed to be hiding in a “safe place” in his native city – Bahawalpur.
Following the Palwama terror assault in February 2019 in India, Pakistan’s Punjab province police had launched a crackdown on terrorism financing and on this connection arrested six activists of the JeM in Gujranwala, some 130kms from Lahore.
The CTD mentioned its groups raided the whereabouts of the JeM’s “safe house” and arrested its members — Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Amir, Allah Ditta, Muhammad Iftikhar, Muhammad Ajmal and Muhammad Bilal Makki — and recovered lakhs of rupees from their possession.
“The suspects had been accumulating funds to finance actions of JeM. The chargesheet in opposition to them has been submitted to the Anti-Terrorism Court Gujranwala and they’re being interrogated,” the CTD mentioned.

Following immense worldwide stress after the Pulwama assault, the Pakistan authorities had arrested over 100 members of banned militant outfits together with the JeM chief’s son and brother.

The authorities additionally took management of the JeM, Mumbai terror assault mastermind Haifiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah (uD) and Falahai Insaniat Foundation (FIF) properties together with seminaries and mosques throughout the nation.
JeM deliberate, executed Pulwama terror assault
JeM had claimed duty for the Pulwama terror assault that killed 40 CRPF troopers.
Pakistan’s Punjab authorities claimed to have taken over the executive management of the JeM headquarters – comprising Madressatul Sabir and Jama-e-Masjid Subhanallah – in Bahawalpur.
According to the federal government, some 600 college students are finding out there and none of them is related to any banned outfit or concerned in any terror exercise.
In May 2019, the United Nations designated Azhar a “global terrorist” after China lifted its maintain on a proposal to blacklist the Pakistan-based JeM chief, a decade after New Delhi approached the world physique for the primary time on the problem.
The UN committee listed Azhar on May 1, 2019 as being related to Al-Qaeda for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related material to”, “recruiting for”, “otherwise supporting acts or activities of”, and “other acts or activities indicating association with” the JeM.
Masood Azhar and IC-814 hijacking
Azhar is a fugitive launched by India in change of passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines aircraft IC-814 in 1999.
After his launch in 1999, Azhar fashioned the Jaish-e-Mohammed and scripted many audacious terror strikes in India.
On February 26, 2019 India had launched air strikes on what was mentioned to be JeM’s largest coaching camp in Pakistan’s Balakot.
The world terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Pakistan to take measures in opposition to terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and utilizing its territory to hold out assaults in India and elsewhere.
The Paris-based FATF positioned Pakistan on the Grey List in June 2018 and requested Islamabad to implement a plan of motion to curb cash laundering and terror financing by the top of 2019 however the deadline was prolonged in a while attributable to COVID-19 pandemic.
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