Balakot camp

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  • The Balakot camp run by the terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) that was hit by the Indian Air Force “housed more than 200 terrorists.
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  • Balakot camp:
    (1) The camp was headed by Jaish chief Masood Azhar’s brother-in-law Yusuf Azhar.
    (2) It is located around 200 km from Islamabad on a hilltop in a forest far from the civilian area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
    (3) On the banks of the Kunhar river, the camp offered the possibility of aquatic training to terrorists.
    (4) Trainers at the camp were “ex-Army personnel”.
    (5) The camp was initially used as a training camp by the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), another terrorist outfit active in Jammu and Kashmir and supported by Pakistan.
  • Yusuf Azhar, alias Mohammad Salim, alias Ustad Ghouri:
    (1) He was one of the main conspirators involved in the hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight IC 814 to Kandahar in 1999.
    (2) The JeM chief was released by India in exchange for the hijacked passengers.
    (3) His name was on a list of 20 fugitives handed over by India to Pakistan in 2002.
    (4) In 2000, the Interpol on the basis of a request by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) opened a red corner notice against Yusuf Azhar.
    (5) The notice said that his place of birth was in Karachi, Pakistan and he was fluent in “Urdu and Hindi”, He is wanted in India for “hijacking, murder and kidnapping”.
Source
The Hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 27th Feb 2019
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