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==Activities in the United Kingdom==
In August 1993 Azhar entered the United Kingdom for a speaking, fundraising, and recruitment tour. His message of jihad was given at some of Britain's most prestigious Islamic institutions including the [[Darul Uloom Bury]] seminary, Zakariya Mosque, Madina Masjid in Blackburn and Burnley, and [[Jamia Masjid]]. His message was that "substantial proportion of the Koran had been devoted to 'killing for the sake of Allah' and that a substantial volume of sayings of the [[Prophets and messengers in Islam|Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]] were on the issue of jihad." Azhar made contacts in Britain who helped to provide training and logistical support the terror plots including "7/7, 21/7 and the attempt in 2006 to smuggle liquid bomb-making substances on to transatlantic airlines."<ref>
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==Arrest in India==
In early 1994, Azhar travelled to [[Srinagar]] under a fake identity, to ease tensions between Harkat-ul-Ansar's feuding factions of [[Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami]] and [[Harkat-ul-Mujahideen]].<ref name=kashmirherald/> India arrested him in February from [[Khanabal]] near Anantnag and imprisoned him for his terrorist activities with the groups.<ref name=latimes/><ref name="kashmirherald" /> On being arrested, he said "
In July, 1995, six [[1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Jammu and Kashmir |foreign tourists were kidnapped]] in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers, referring to themselves as Al-Faran, included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands.<ref name=kashmirherald/> One of the hostages managed to escape whilst another was found in a decapitated state in August.<ref name="latimes" /> The others were never seen or heard from since 1995.<ref>
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==Bibliography==
===Books and booklets by him===
Described as a "prolific writer",<ref>Ben Brandt, "AZHAR, MASOOD" in Peter Chalk, ''Encyclopedia of Terrorism'', ABC-CLIO (2013), vol. 1, p. 79</ref> he has authored some 20 books mainly on [[jihad]],<ref>Zahid, Farhan.
*''Fatah-ul-Jawad'', described by scholar [[Ayesha Siddiqa]] as "his seminal work", it is a book on jihad "with two volumes of 2,000 pages each."<ref>Ayesha Siddiqa (13 March 2019), [https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/jaish-e-mohammed-under-the-hood/ "Jaish-e-Mohammed: Under the Hood"], ''The Diplomat''. Retrieved 30 March 2020.</ref>
*''Faz̤āʼil-i jihād, kāmil''. On the importance of Jihad; a 850-page commentary on ''Mashāriʻal-Ashwāq ilʹa-Maṣariʻ al-ʻUshshāq'' by the medieval scholar [[Ibn Nuhaas|Ibn an-Naḥās]]. In 2002 it was estimated that some 20,000 copies of this book have been sold in Pakistan.<ref>[[Husain Haqqani]], "Review" in ''Foreign Policy'', No. 132 (Sep.-Oct., 2002), p. 73</ref>
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