Operation Sindoor: Masood Azhar says he has no regret, despair after 10 family members including wife are killed
Masood Azhar the most dreaded terrorist in the world and a menace for India lost ten of his family members and four close aides during Operation Sindoor. The operation which targeted terror headquarters, training facilities and launch pads in nine different locations in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir was aimed at dismantling the terror infrastructure and avenging the Pahalgam terror strike.
A statement by Jaish-e-Mohammad chief, Masood Azhar said that the Indian strike on Markaz Subhan Allah at Bahawalpur resulted in the death of 10 family members and four close aides.
Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said that “Is zulm ne saaray zabtay tor diye hain. Ab koi reham ki umeed na rakhe.” This translates to, ‘ this cruelty has broken all boundaries. Now no one should expect mercy.’
Among those killed are his wife, elder sister, her husband, nephew and niece. "Ten members of my family were blessed with this happiness together tonight... five are innocent children, my elder sister, her honorable husband. My scholar Fazil bhanje (nephew) and his wife and my beloved scholar Fazilah (bhanji) ... my dear brother Huzaifah and his mother. Two more dear companions," a statement attributed to him said.
He said that he has no regret nor despair. It comes to my heart again and again that I too would have join this fourteen member happy caravan. Time for their departure had come, but Allah did not kill them, he said. He even invited people for their funeral.
"For the last three decades, Pakistan has been constructing terror infrastructure, including recruitment centres, training areas, and launch pads across PoJK and Pakistan. This operation was intended to dismantle those facilities and prevent future attacks," Colonel Sophia Qureshi said at the official briefing in New Delhi.
"Our intelligence indicated that further attacks against India are impending. Thus, compulsion, both to deter and prevent and hence earlier this morning, India exercised its right to respond to deter such more cross-border terrorism... Our actions were measured and non-escalatory, proportionate and responsible. They focused on dismantling terrorists' infrastructure,"
India fired 24 precision missiles at nine locations in Pakistan and PoK at 1.44 am on Wednesday. As per an Intelligence assessment, at least 70 terrorists were killed in the strikes.