Azhar not in Pak custody: Qureshi

Islamabad, Jan 2 (PTI) Pakistan has not detained Jaish-
e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, who is on India's most
wanted list, and authorities are not aware of his whereabouts,
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said.

"Our stand from day one has been that some LeT leaders
have been detained and that Masood Azhar is not in our
custody," Qureshi said on the top Pakistani terrorist and
founder of the JeM.

"It is (our) effort that we will try to get to him but he
is not in our custody. We do not know his whereabouts,"
Qureshi told Geo TV.

Shortly after the Pakistani media reported last month
that Azhar had been placed under house arrest, Defence
Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar had told an Indian TV channel
that the militant leader had been detained.

Azhar is on India's most wanted list for his terror
activities. India arrested him in 1994 and imprisoned him for
being a member of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM).

In December 1999, he was freed by the Indian
government in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian
Airlines Flight 814 (IC814) that was held hostage in Kandahar,
Afghanistan, under Taliban control. PTI RHL
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