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JeM chief roamed India fearlessly, stayed at Delhi's Ashok hotel in 1994

Masood Azhar arrived from Dhaka, and when questioned by immigration that he didn't look like a Portuguese referring to his passport, he claimed he was a Gujarati by birth

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Details emerging from Pulwama mastermind Maulana Masood Azhar's interrogation report -- when he was in Indian captivity for five years -- reveal that like 26/11 perpetrator David Coleman Headley, he too roamed around India without any fear. On exiting IGI, like Headley, he too was driven to the Ashok Hotel slapbang in the middle of LBZ and the heart of India's diplomatic community (Headley had stayed at the Mumbai Taj and got GPS coordinates for all the locations for 26/11).

The Jaish supremo arrived in India on a Portuguese passport in 1994. Over the next 15 days, he stayed at Hotel