KASHMIR IMBROGLIO-THE WAY FORWARD
By Lt Gen Sanjay Kulkarni (Veteran)
Ayman Mohd Rabie al-Zawahiri, born 1951, is the current leader of Al Qaeda and has pledged his support to Mullah Mansoor, the Taliban chief killed last year in Pakistan by a US drone strike. Al-Zawahiri is a wealthy Egyptian who at the age of 14 was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is supposedly involved in the siege of Lal Masjid in Pakistan, and also reportedly implicated in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He was also Osama bin Laden's personal advisor and surgeon since 1986. On Osama's death in 2011, he took over as Chief of the Al Qaeda.




