New Delhi: Officials have said that Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad has not been arrested nor has he been put under house arrest while three of his junior functionaries were detained in cases not connected with the Pathankot terror attack.
Quoting intelligence inputs, government officials said no case has been registered against Azhar in connection with the Pathankot terror attack and there has been no visible action against the leader of the terror group responsible for many attacks in India.
Three junior-level functionaries of the JeM were detained by Pakistan’s security agencies but only for possessing some incriminating documents, which have nothing to do with the January 2 attack on the Pathankot air base in which seven security personnel were killed, besides the six perpetrators.
Initial reports of Azhar being detained for the Pathankot incident, according to officials, were completely false and suspected to be a propaganda by some Pakistani agencies.
Pakistan is yet to inform India if it has registered any criminal case against the JeM or any of its activists for the Pathankot attack.
