Shameless Bilawal Bhutto makes shocking statement about terrorist Masood Azhar says, 'Pakistan doesn't...'
In a bizarre Pakistani politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has again claimed that said Islamabad does not know where Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar is. One of India's most-wanted terrorists, Masood Azhar has been involved in the 2001 Parliament attack, 26/11 Mumbai attacks, 2016 Pathankot attack and the 2019 Pulwama attack, among others. A designated a global terrorist by the United Nations in 2019, Azhar was released in exchange for the passengers of IC-814 after the Kandahar hijacking in 1999.
Azhar, in the recent Operation Sindoor had also lost 10 members of his family and four of his aides. India targeted key terror bases in the country during the operation, including the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Taiba in Muridke and the Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bahawalpur.
Where is Masood Azhar?
In an interview Bhutto said that his country would be 'happy to' arrest him if India gives information that he is on Pakistani soil and added Saeed is not a free man in Pakistan and Azhar may be in Afghanistan.
'As far as Masood Azhar is concerned, if he is in Afghanistan, the West has now handed over to a group that once upon a time they called terrorists, and now they call the people in charge of Afghanistan… It's not possible for Pakistan to go and do what all of NATO was unable to do within Afghanistan. There's no reason for Pakistan to want to see this individual or any individual of concern to be active.'
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