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When just one slap from Indian army man rattled JeM's Maulana Masood Azhar

Mohananey recalled that Azhar would often boast that police could not keep him in custody for long as he was important for Pakistan and the ISI

Jaish leader Masood Azhar held for Pathankot attack
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The dreaded architect of some of the most gruesome terror attacks in India, Maulana Masood Azhar, was an "easy man" to handle in custody and he got shaken up on the first "slap" from an army jawan prompting him to blurt out details of his movements, says a former police officer who interrogated him after his arrest in 1994.

Azhar, who had used a Portuguese passport to enter India through Bangladesh and reach Kashmir, was arrested in February 1994 in Anantnag in South Kashmir.

In the custody, the intelligence agencies did not have to do much work on Azhar who started speaking

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