The Indian Army on Sunday confirmed that multiple high-value Pakistani terrorists, including those involved in the 1999 Indian Airlines flight (IC-814) hijacking and the 2019 Pulwama attack on security personnel, were among the 100 terrorists targeted in Operation Sindroor, when India destroyed nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the Pahalgam terrorist attack.
“Those strikes across those nine terror hubs left more than 100 terrorists killed, including high-value targets such as Yusuf Azhar, Abdul Malik Rauf and Mudasir Ahmed that were involved in the hijack of IC814 and the Pulwama blast,” Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, said in an Army press briefing.
Yusuf Azhar, the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar, was wanted in connection with the IC-814 hijacking case, which resulted in Masood Azharâs release in 1999. Abdul Malik Rauf was a high-ranking commander of the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and was designated a global terrorist by the United States. Mudasir Ahmed was a senior Lashkar operative and was in charge of Markaz Taiba in Muridke, the terrorist outfit’s headquarters.