Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has admitted that Masood Azhar, the Jaish-e-Mohammed chief, is ‘in Pakistan’.
The minister, in an interview with the CNN has confirmed that the leader of the terrorist outfit JeM is “so ill that he cannot even leave his house”.
The JeM has taken responsibility of conducting an operation that killed over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans on February 14 in Kashmir’s Pulwama.
While Qureshi stated that he had ‘information’ to confirm that Masood Azhar was in Pakistan, asked why he has not been arrested ‘ill or not’, he repeated the oft-used official stance of the Pakistani establishment of requiring ‘evidence which is acceptable to the courts of Pakistan’.
The need to ‘satisfy the legal process’ and ‘convince the people’ and ‘independent judiciary’ of the country has remained the regular recourse of Pakistan to avoid taking any action against terrorists cells operating there. As per officials quoted in various reports, India has handed over a dossier to Pakistan containing all details of Jaish’s complicity in the Pulwama attack, evidence of terror cells in Pakistan and presence of terrorist leaders there.
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