Azhar, who used a Portuguese passport to enter India through Bangladesh and reach Kashmir, was arrested in February 1994 in Anantnag in South Kashmir.
The report also analysed the recent history of IED blasts in Kashmir and found terrorists were using military-grade explosives such as RDX, PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate), TNT (Trinitrotoluene) and commercial explosives such as slurries and ammonium nitrate for fabricating IEDs.
It was on Thursday when a JeM suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into a CRPF bus in Pulwama district, claiming lives of at least 40 personnel.
While a majority of the bodies have been identified, some of them have been mangled beyond recognition.
The Federal Aviation Administration, in a notice issued on Wednesday, said that terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in Pakistan.
Remarks by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats came as he and heads of other top American intelligence agencies appeared on Tuesday before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on their worldwide threat assessment.
Cautioning Islamabad over Taliban being a cause of concern for the security of the country, the Army chief said Pakistan has always kept the terror outfit in its backyard.
Swaraj identified terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and climate change as the three critical challenges being faced by the world today.
He added that Jammu and Kashmir was not an issue as it was an integral part of the country.
Till July 20, as many as 87 local youths had joined militancy in the state, according to Union Minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir.
First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Paulomi Tripathi was speaking at a General Assembly 3rd Committee session on 'Report of the Human Rights Council' on Friday.
Exhorting the Kashmiris to unitedly fight against terrorism, he said it is absolutely essential for all of us that in this battle, we need the Kashmiri people on our side.
Swaraj was in Tajikistan's capital to attend a two-day conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)'s Council of Heads of Government (CHG).
Joint teams of police, CRPF and Army launched a cordon and search operation in six villages of Shopian district of south Kashmir early this morning, a police official said.
He added that the international community needs to work together to expose and destroy the linkages that exist between terrorists and their supporters.
Swaraj said the five-member grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa was started a decade ago to change the status quo in international organisations and correct distortions in multilateralism.
In an article in the journal 'American Interest', Haqqani said that Pakistani leaders' view of their country's interests in Afghanistan, differ vastly from those of the US and that limits the prospects of cooperation in ending the Afghan war
Claiming Madiba to be 'one of our own', the external affairs ministers insisted that India was proud to call him a Bharat Ratna.
The gunmen fired upon a youth in the Hazratbal area of the city here, resulting in his on the spot death, a police official said.
"We will also work for the welfare of the police personnel, who have been at the forefront of anti-militancy operations," 55-year-old Singh told PTI.
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