The Indian military eliminated Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar’s brother, Abdul Rauf Azhar, under Operation Sindoor on May 7. Azhar was the second-in-command in JeM. He was killed after India bombed JeM’s Markaz Subhan Allah complex in Bahawalpur. Azhar was the mastermind of the hijack of Indian Airlines IC 814 in Kandahar in 1999. He was also a central conspirator in American-Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in 2002.