Masood Azhar’s brother attends the funeral of IC 814 hijacker Zahoor Mistry, according to reports.
According to several media sources in Pakistan, one of the hijackers of the IC 814 flight, Zahoor Mistry, was kill. Mistry is mention kill by two bike-riding assailants in Karachi’s Akhtar neighborhood on March 1. Geo TV in Pakistan verified the killing, identifying him as a “businessman” from Karachi. Mistry had been living in Karachi under the alias “Zahid Akhund” and running a furniture company called Crescent Furniture. Masood Azhar’s brother attends the funeral of IC 814 hijacker Zahoor Mistry, according to reports.
According to Pakistani media sources, Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Masood Azhar’s brother Rauf Asghar, as well as other members of the terror group, attended Mistry’s funeral. The perpetrators were also see lingering in the vicinity before the murder, according to local media.
The Indian Airlines flight was hijack on December 24, 1999, shortly after taking off from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport en way to Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Rauf Asghar and Azhar’s elder brother Ibrahim Azhar were among the five hijackers, as was Mistry. Mistry was the one who killed Rupin Katyal, a 25-year-old passenger on the flight. Katyal and his wife were returning to Delhi after a honeymoon in Kathmandu.
The flight had been hijack while flying over Lucknow and take to Amritsar for refueling, carrying 180 passengers including the crew. It attempted to land in Lahore after taking off from Lucknow but was denied permission by Pakistan. It was subsequently transport to Kandahar, where the then-Afghanistan Taliban administration joined the discussions for the passengers’ release.
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The negotiations came to an end on December 31, 1999, when Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Masood Azhar, Omar Saeed Sheikh, and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar were release from an Indian prison. The trio was later link to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen terror organisation.
The three cross into Pakistan after being release and hand up to Taliban authorities. Since then, Azhar has masterminded a number of terror acts in Jammu & Kashmir and across India, including the 2016 Pathankot airbase attack and the 2019 Pulwama incident, which killed 40 CRPF members.