Abdul Rauf Azhar | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami[1] |
| Rank | Supreme Commander of Jaish-e-Mohammed |
| Battles/wars | |
Abdul Rauf is a Pakistani Deobandi fundamentalist Islamist militant commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Deobandi Islamist militant organization which has carried out Islamist militant activities in India & Afghanistan under the support of Pakistan's main intelligence agency.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ Gutman, Roy (18 January 2020). How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of ... – Roy Gutman – Google Books. US Institute of Peace Press. ISBN 9781601270245. Archived from the original on 18 January 2020.
- ^ "Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of the Prophet)". Institute for Conflict Management. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010.
The outlawed JeM is reportedly re-organising itself under its new commander Mufti Abdul Rauf, younger brother of the outfit's chief Maulana Masood Azhar
. - ^ Amir Mir (16 October 2009). "Pakistan Army roped in jehadis to hold talks with GHQ hostage takers". Middle East Transparent. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
Special planes were subsequently dispatched to Lahore, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan to bring to Rawalpindi Malik Ishaq, a jailed leader of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Mufti Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of Maulana Masood Azhar who is the acting ameer of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, the chief of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, to hold talks with the hostage takers.
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"US sanctions three Pak terrorists". Hindustan Times. Press Trust of India. 4 December 2010. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012.
US has slapped sanctions against three Pakistan-based key terrorists leaders, including Abdul Rauf Azhar the top commander of Jaish-e-Mohammed in India, who in 2008 was assigned to organise suicide attacks in the country.
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"Mufti Abdul Rauf New Commander; Reorganizing Terror Group Jaish E Mohammad". India Defence. 25 April 2007. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011.
According to the Daily Times—a leading Pakistani daily—Mufti Abdul Rauf has taken upon himself the task of spearheading the reorganisation of the militant body after Maulana Azhar went underground following two suicide attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf.