Islamabad, April 13: Pakistani authorities have refuted Chilean police’s claim of having arrested the brother of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar, accused of coordinating the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane, saying they had nabbed someone else, according to a media report.
The Chilean police have arrested someone else because Mufti Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of Azhar, is present in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, ‘The News’ daily quoted unnamed officials of Pakistani security agencies as saying.
Pakistani authorities told the daily that the name of the man arrested in Chile last week is Mohammad Abdul Rauf, a Pakistani who has been charged with possessing a fake visa.
They said the detained man has nothing to do with Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) or any other Pakistani militant group and India’s CBI would soon come to the “same conclusion”.
-Agencies