Operation Sindoor: Why did India goal Bahawalpur? Know all about its reference to Masood Azhar, Jaish

Azhar, who heads Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group, has been charge-sheeted in a number of circumstances from the 2001 Parliament assault to the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing.
Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes on 9 terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, together with the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s base Muridke. The army strikes come two weeks after the bloodbath of 26 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. The strikes have been carried out beneath ‘Operation Sindoor’ at round 1.28 am. In response to a press release by the Defence Ministry, the actions by the Indian armed forces have been “centered, measured and non-escalatory” in nature and that no Pakistani army amenities have been focused.
Why is Bahawalpur thought of to be Masood Azhar’s stronghold?
Bahawalpur is taken into account to be stronghold of India’s most wished terrorist Masood Azhar.
Azhar, who heads the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group, has been charge-sheeted in a number of circumstances from the 2001 Parliament assault to the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing.
In response to studies, Masood has two homes in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur, with one situated proper subsequent to the Osman-O-Ali Masjid. The second home of Masood can also be situated in Bahawalpur, practically 4 kilometres away from the primary.
It additionally lies subsequent to a mosque referred to as Jamia Mosque, and the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore Excessive Courtroom is only a kilometre away from Masood’s second residence, whereas the District Collector’s workplace is at a distance of simply three kilometres away.
Furthermore, there are reportedly 4 coaching centres of the terrorist organisation in Bahawalpur.
Bahawalpur additionally has the headquarters of the Pakistan Military and an airbase. About 10 kilometres away from this, the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed was working a coaching camp.
Who’s Masood Azhar?
Masood Azhar was among the many three terrorists launched by Indian authorities after the 1999 Kandahar hijacking of an Indian Airways airplane.
He went to Pakistan and began his new terror outfit by the title of Jaish-e-Mohammed. He’s wished within the Parliament assault case, terror strike at Pathankot airbase and even within the 2019 case of a suicide attacker of the phobia outfit killing 40 CRPF personnel in South Kashmir.