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Masood Azhar

Pakistani militant leader (born 1968)


Masood Azhar
Masood Azhar

Muhammad Masood Azhar Alvi is a Pakistani militant leader, who is the founder and current leader of militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based Islamic Deobandi jihadist organisation. His actions are not limited to the South Asian region; for instance, BBC News described him as "the man who brought jihad to Britain". On 1 May 2019, he was listed as an international terrorist by the United Nations Security Council.

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