evidence: Perhaps some such calculation was behind the Chinese decision not to block the France-UK-U.S.-sponsored resolution at the UN Security Council to declare Masood as a global terrorist. The resolution was passed on May 1, 2019. The fifty-year-old son of a retired school headmaster in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur, Masood was arrested in February 1994 at Anantnag by chance. He had entered India through Bangladesh and was carrying a Portuguese passport. Indian army men arrested him when, along with Sajjad Afghani, he was travelling in an auto-rickshaw. His organisation was well-equipped, and, within ten months of his arrest, his release was demanded by some terrorists who kidnapped a few foreigners from Delhi. But the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police freed the foreigners. Masood was not released. Again, in July 1995, Al Faran kidnapped five foreigners in Kashmir, and demanded Masood’s release. Al Faran was the subsidiary of a terrorist outfit called Harkat-ul-Afasar. But this attempt to free Masood also failed. In 1999, when Masood was in Kot Balwal jail, a tunnel was dug to facilitate his escape, but Masood Azhar had such a big body that he was incapable of moving through the tunnel (while Sajjad Afghani was killed at that time).