UK plot planner relative of militant set free during Indian plane hijacking

Islamabad: Rashid Rauf, described as the "key planner" of the terrorist plot to blow up US-bound airliners, is a close relative of Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar.
Rauf is married to a close relative of Azhar, the militant leader set free by India during the 1999 hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu to Kandahar.
He was arrested in connection with the plot from Bhawalpur, the headquarters of the banned JeM, where Azhar lives, Pakistan daily The Nation reported.
He was arrested only a day before the London terror plot was unearthed. Rauf, who has dual citizenship of Pakistan and Britain is expected to be extradited to London shortly.
Pakistan's Interior Minister, Aftab Khan Shepao said a team of legal experts from London have arrived to "coordinate and discuss" the legal aspects of extradition.
17/08/06 NDTV.com

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