Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar’s elder brother, Mohammad Tahir Anwar, has died in Pakistan under what are being described as mysterious circumstances.
According to a statement released on the banned outfit’s official communication channel, Anwar’s funeral was scheduled to take place at Jamia Masjid Usman Wali in Bahawalpur on Monday. However, authorities have not yet disclosed the exact cause of his death.
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Anwar was reportedly one of Azhar’s five brothers and is believed to have played a significant role within Jaish-e-Mohammed, remaining actively involved in the group’s operations over the years.
The development comes months after Azhar claimed that several members of his family were killed in India’s targeted airstrikes conducted under Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
In a statement attributed to Azhar, who was arrested in India in 1994 and later released following the Air India Flight 814 hijacking, it was claimed that those killed in the strike on JeM’s headquarters Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah in Bahawalpur, included multiple members of his extended family, among them his elder sister, her husband, a nephew and his wife, a niece, and five children.
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