Mushtaq Zargar

…kidnapping Western tourists in Kashmir), Mushtaq Zargar (a Kashmiri militant), and Masood Azhar. Azhar featured in all the hijackers’ demands because he was a key Islamist cleric and recruiter whose release was expected to reinvigorate militant operations, especially in Kashmir. One of the suspected hijackers, Ibrahim Athar, was reportedly Azhar’s…