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Abdul Rauf Azhar was a Pakistani Deobandi Jihadist cleric and militant, serving as the supreme commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammed. He was the younger brother of Masood Azhar, the chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Abdul Rauf Azhar is trending due to his reported killing in Operation Sindoor, a military operation conducted by the Indian Armed Forces. He was notorious as the mastermind behind the 1999 IC-814 Air India flight hijacking and had been one of India's most wanted terrorists. .

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