Click to play videoNew Delhi: Maulana Masood Azhar, who is the founder and chief of terrorist organisation Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) and one of the most wanted terrorists by India, is proving to be a big headache for Pakistan.
Pakistan has been flip-flopping on Maulana Masood Azhar’s presence in the country.
Now CNN IBN has learnt that Indian intelligence agencies have zeroed in on his exact movements.
Indian authorities have also been searching for another criminal, Dawood Ibrahim, since the deadly serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993.
The search soon zeroed in on Karachi and since then, Pakistan has always denied the presence of Dawood, another of India's most wanted, in the country despite concrete evidence.
Similarly Pakistan is speaking in two voices on Masood Azhar, whom India released to rescue passengers and crew of hijacked Indian Airlines IC-814 flight in 1999 at Kandhahar.
The Taliban promptly sent Azhar back home in Pakistan where he formed JeM within two months.
Within a year of its formation, JeM launched a series of attacks inside India.
The first was attack by JeM on October 1, 2001 was on the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, which left 40 people dead.
But the JeM's most audacious attack was on Parliament on December 13, 2001 which brought India and Pakistan to the brink of a war.
All the attacks were planned from his palatial house and the Madrassa Madina in Model Town in Bahawalpur in Pakistan.
Just after the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008, India gave pin-point location of Azhar.
But after the US pressure, Indian intelligence sources say that ISI shifted him to Pakistan occupied Kashmir and sheltered him in an army cantonment guest house.
After that the Pakistan's Defence Minister Chaudhry Mukhtar Ahmed told CNN-IBN that they have arrested Azhar.
"About Masood Azhar, I don't think we had decided yesterday to pick him up but our President is determined that we remove all irritants and as a small irritant he has been picked up," Ahmed had said on December 9.
But early this week, Pakistan has once agains shifted Azhar to another safe house in Rawalpindi.
"Masood Azhar's organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad was banned in 1992 and we are also looking for him. We do not know where he is. He is not under house arrest," Pakistan's High Commissioner in India Shahid Malik said.
When asked if reports that Masood Azhar has been house arrested in Bahawalpur are wrong, Malik said, "Yes. As far as I know it is wrong because we are looking for him. He is not in Pakistan."
Earlier this year, to escape sanctions, Masood Azhar changed the name of Jaish-e-Mohammad to Khudam-ul-Islam, which is now headed by his younger brother Mufti Abdul Rauf, who recently held a public meeting to launch a book authored by Masood Azhar.
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