Jaish chief Masood Azhar is 'not dead', says Pak media report

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 10:47 AM

 Jaish chief Masood Azhar is not dead, says Pak media report

Islamabad, March 4: India's most wanted terrorist and Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar is "alive", a Pakistani media report said on Sunday, quoting unnamed sources close to his family.

The media reports claiming that JeM leader is dead are false, News reported.

The report came amid speculation on social media that JeM founder has died.

However, there was no official confirmation.

Quoting unnamed sources close to the family of the JeM chief, the channel said Azhar is "alive", without elaborating on his health condition.

There was no official word on Azhar's fate from the Pakistan government.

"I don't know anything at this moment," Pakistan's Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said when asked about media reports claiming the death of Azhar.

A resident of Bahawalpur in Pakistan's Punjab province, Azhar formed the Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2000.

The 50-year-old Azhar, who was released by the National Democratic Alliance government in 1999 in exchange of hostages of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814, has been accused of being the mastermind of the 2001 Parliament attack, suicide attack on Jammu and Kashmir state assembly, attack on the Pathankot IAF base and the latest Pulwama terror strike.