That family members of Masood Azhar was killed ... and as many as 10 during Op. Sindoor ... shows the poetic justice !! Masood's release from Kashmir jail was orchestrated by Kandahar hijack

Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was targeted in the precision strikes carried out by India under Operation Sindoor, Pakistan MP Malik Muhammad Iqbal admitted in the national assembly, a section of the Pakistan media reported on Thursday.

In response to the deadly Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, India launched precision strikes on nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Op Sindoor on Wednesday.

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Talking about 'Operation Sindoor' in the National Assembly the Pakistani MP reportedly said, "India attacked Bahawalpur, targeted a mosque and a madrasa, and attacked Maulana Masood Azhar. 

If the country is in danger then we are all together."  

On Wednesday, Masood Azhar reportedly said that as many as 10 members of his family and four aides were killed in Indian strikes in Pakistan's Bahawalpur.

Those killed include Azhar's elder sister and her husband, his nephew and his wife, another niece and five children of his family, BBC Urdu reported, citing a statement by the JeM chief. A close aide of Azhar and his mother, and two other close associates were also killed in the Indian strikes.

Nine targets-- Sawai Nalla, Sarjal, Muridke, Kotli, Kotli Gulpur, 

Mehmoona Joya, Bhimber and Bahawalpur – in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were carefully chosen and targeted by India.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that over 100 terrorists have been killed as part of India's most aggressive cum expansive military operation in recent years. 

Pakistan has claimed deaths of some civilians in the May 7th strikes, India maintains that no civilians or military bases were targeted by Indian armed forces.

Masood Azhar's release as a bargain for the real of the hostages was one of the big failures of the Vajpayee government and the "saddest" chapter of that period. 

The Congress had lampooned enough at Jaswant Singh for Indian Airlines plane hijack fiasco and sought to rubbish Jaswant’s contribution in re-establishing a workable relation with the US aftermath Pokhran-2.  

At least Jaswant should be given some credit, of course besides Vajpayee himself, for taking a “journey” with the American leadership “guided by a sense of power and pride that India is not subservient to anyone and we (US and India) speak as equals”.

In the words of Talbott himself, “Jaswant was as hardheaded and tenacious an advocate for his government’s position as I had ever encountered”. But Masood Azhar release remains a sad episode and albeit it always left India embarrassed.

Since its inception in 2000, the group JeM (founded by Masood after his release) had carried out several attacks, primarily in Jammu and Kashmir. 

 

The group was responsible for several terror attacks: the 2001 attack on Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly, the 2001 Parliament attack, the 2016 Pathankot airbase attack, the 2016 attack on the Indian Mission in Mazar-i-Sharif, the 2016 Uri attack, and the 2019 Pulwama attack.

Each of which has had strategic consequences for India–Pakistan relations. 

Now that his family members got eliminated; it shows somewhere the destiny clock was working vis-a-vis Masood along with Indian military and the Prime Minister Modi himself.   

In 2016, JeM was suspected of being responsible for an attack on the Pathankot airbase in India. 

The Indian government and some other sources, accused Pakistan of assisting JeM.

Pakistan called the report an "amalgamation of fiction and fabrication".  In February 2019, the group took responsibility for a suicide bombing attack on a security convoy in the Pulwama district that killed 40 security personnel.

JeM headquarter at Bahawalpur was destroyed on May 7th leaving Pakistan red-faced. 

Jaish Hq was turned into rubble - May 7 

Moreover, Abdul Rauf Azhar, a most-wanted terrorist, was involved in the hijack of Indian Airlines IC 814 in Kandahar in 1999. was also killed. 

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Another person who would be seeing the destruction of Masood's family members from above is Rupin Katyal, who was killed during the hijack.

He along with his newly married wife Rachna Katyal was also in the fateful plane undertaking the fateful journey from Kathmandu to Delhi on Dec 25, 1999.

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