{"id":4639,"date":"2019-03-01T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:39","slug":"pakistan-foreign-minister-admits-masood-azhar-is-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/pakistan-foreign-minister-admits-masood-azhar-is-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan foreign minister admits Masood Azhar \u2018is in Pakistan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has admitted that Masood Azhar, the Jaish-e-Mohammed chief, is \u2018in Pakistan\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, in an interview with the CNN has confirmed that the leader of the terrorist outfit JeM is \u201cso ill that he cannot even leave his house\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The JeM has taken responsibility of conducting an operation that killed over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans on February 14 in Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama.<\/p>\n<p>While Qureshi stated that he had \u2018information\u2019 to confirm that Masood Azhar was in Pakistan, asked why he has not been arrested \u2018ill or not\u2019, he repeated the oft-used official stance of the Pakistani establishment of requiring \u2018evidence which is acceptable to the courts of Pakistan\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The need to \u2018satisfy the legal process\u2019 and \u2018convince the people\u2019 and \u2018independent judiciary\u2019 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\u2019s complicity in the Pulwama attack, evidence of terror cells in Pakistan and presence of terrorist leaders there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has admitted that Masood Azhar, the Jaish-e-Mohammed chief, is \u2018in Pakistan\u2019. The minister, in an interview with the CNN has confirmed that the leader of the terrorist outfit JeM is \u201cso ill that he cannot even leave his house\u201d. The JeM has taken responsibility of conducting an operation that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}