Islamabad: Jaish-e-Muhammad Chief Maulana Masood Azhar, wanted for many terror attacks in India, has officially been declared missing. He was under house arrest in Bahawalpur.
The man Pakistan claimed it had held has been mysteriously and officially declared missing from the country according to a report in the Daily Times.
Masood Azhar and two other terrorists were freed by India in exchange for the passengers of IC-814 that was hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in December 1999.
Azhar formed the Jaish-e-Mohammed soon after his release.
There were reports earlier that suggested that Masood Azhar is in the tribal areas of North Waziristan on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The area is under the control of Jalaluddin Haqqani, whose name had come up in connection with the suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul in July 2008.
Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar is among the 20 fugitives that India had asked Pakistan to hand over. Others in the list include Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Mohammad and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.