Mazood Azhar's mission is to 'destroy' India. With Operation Sindoor, he got a taste of his own medicine
Mazood Azhar's mission is to 'destroy' India. With Operation Sindoor, he got a taste of his own medicine
Team TOI Plus
Updated: May 8, 2025, 15:16 IST IST
The strike on the Markaz Subhan Allah seminary in Bahawalpur, operational since 2015 and the main centre of the Jaish-e-Muhammed for training and indoctrination, resulted in the deaths of dreaded terrorist Masood Azhar's kin
Maulana Masood Azhar , the notorious chief of terror group Jaish-e-Muhammed ( JeM ), on Wednesday (May 7 ) acknowledged the death of 10 of his family members and four aides in the Indian strike on Markaz Subhan Allah in Bahawalpur, a Deobandi seminary in Pakistan, in the early hours the same day.
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