{"id":310162,"date":"2019-03-05T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310162"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:28:15","slug":"jem-chief-masood-azhars-brother-detained-by-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jem-chief-masood-azhars-brother-detained-by-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"JeM chief Masood Azhar\u2019s brother detained by Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310163 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/azhar-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/azhar-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/azhar.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan\u2019s Interior Ministry on Tuesday said its security agencies have detained Mufti Abdul Rauf, the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed&#8217;s chief Masood Azhar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Abdul Rauf is among 44 members of banned groups that have been detained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move came after Pakistan had assured the international community that it will take strict action against terror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mufti Abdur Rauf and Hammad Azhar are among those detained during the crackdown, Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi said at a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA dossier shared by India with Pakistan last week also contained names of Mufti Abdur Rauf and Hammad Azhar,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The minister said the action would be taken against all the proscribed organizations but denied that the action was not done under pressure from India but was based on the decision taken by the National Action Plan committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The minister further said the crackdown will continue for two weeks and actions against the arrested members will be taken on the basis of evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has put Pakistan on a tight deadline to stop terror funding on its soil.\u00a0If it fails to act on its promises made to the FATF, Pakistan, which is already on the \u2018grey\u2019 list might find itself being blacklisted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s Interior Ministry on Tuesday said its security agencies have detained Mufti Abdul Rauf, the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed&#8217;s chief Masood Azhar. Abdul Rauf is among 44 members of banned groups that have been detained. The move came after Pakistan had assured the international community that it will take strict action against terror. Mufti Abdur Rauf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[4984,11049,11048,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310165,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310162\/revisions\/310165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}