Who Is Masood Azhar

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is in Samarkand to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, did not respond to ANI's question on Friday related to Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.

BJP leader and union minister Jayant Sinha, who is contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, used the honorific during an election rally in the state

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath -- who launched the BJP's election campaign in Uttar Pradesh with a rally in Saharanpur -- generated controversy today by linking the Congress candidate to Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar. Congress's Imran Masood, an influential leader from the area, is up against the BJP's sitting lawmaker Raghav Lakhanpal in Sahara...

In a massive "non-military, pre-emptive" strike by the Indian Air Force across the Line of Control, a major terror camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed was destroyed and over 300 terrorists were killed. The camp was managed by Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar's brother-in-law Yousuf Azhar, who was also killed, according to sources. India carried out the...

The US said today that countries using veto to scuttle sanctioning of terrorists will not "preclude" it from taking actions, amid continued Chinese opposition to efforts to get Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar banned by the United Nations. "The administration very much is looking at all of these avenues and some of th...

In a rare dissent against official policy, a former Chinese diplomat who served in India has sought change in China's repeated efforts to block India's bid to slap a UN ban on Jaish chief Masood Azhar arguing that he is a terrorist and Beijing should "adjust" its stand accordingly.

India has accused the UN's top decision-making body of being stuck in a "time warp and politics" as it argued its case for a ban on terrorist Masood Azhar, who heads the Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Authorities in Pakistan have frozen bank accounts with more than Rs 400 million of over 5,100 terror suspects, including Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar who is under "protective custody" after the terror attack on the Pathankot air base, officials said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is on a three-day visit to India, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to hold talks on a range of key regional and bilateral issues. Sources said among other things, the Chinese minister and Ms Swaraj discussed India's inclusion in the elite Nuclear Security Group and Ch...

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is in Samarkand to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, did not respond to ANI's question on Friday related to Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.

BJP leader and union minister Jayant Sinha, who is contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, used the honorific during an election rally in the state

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath -- who launched the BJP's election campaign in Uttar Pradesh with a rally in Saharanpur -- generated controversy today by linking the Congress candidate to Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar. Congress's Imran Masood, an influential leader from the area, is up against the BJP's sitting lawmaker Raghav Lakhanpal in Sahara...

In a massive "non-military, pre-emptive" strike by the Indian Air Force across the Line of Control, a major terror camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed was destroyed and over 300 terrorists were killed. The camp was managed by Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar's brother-in-law Yousuf Azhar, who was also killed, according to sources. India carried out the...

The US said today that countries using veto to scuttle sanctioning of terrorists will not "preclude" it from taking actions, amid continued Chinese opposition to efforts to get Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar banned by the United Nations. "The administration very much is looking at all of these avenues and some of th...

In a rare dissent against official policy, a former Chinese diplomat who served in India has sought change in China's repeated efforts to block India's bid to slap a UN ban on Jaish chief Masood Azhar arguing that he is a terrorist and Beijing should "adjust" its stand accordingly.

India has accused the UN's top decision-making body of being stuck in a "time warp and politics" as it argued its case for a ban on terrorist Masood Azhar, who heads the Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Authorities in Pakistan have frozen bank accounts with more than Rs 400 million of over 5,100 terror suspects, including Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar who is under "protective custody" after the terror attack on the Pathankot air base, officials said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is on a three-day visit to India, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to hold talks on a range of key regional and bilateral issues. Sources said among other things, the Chinese minister and Ms Swaraj discussed India's inclusion in the elite Nuclear Security Group and Ch...