Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) ‘chief’ Masood Azhar had undertaken a to United Kingdom (UK)to collect funds for terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir and his travel was facilitated by a Muslim cleric of Gujarati origin in 1994, reports NDTV on March 18, 2019. During his stay in the UK, he visited a number of mosques and collected Rs. 15 lakh in Pakistani currency, though he got a "very poor" response while travelling to Sharjah and Saudi Arabia before arriving in India in 1994. Azhar had procured a Pakistani passport in his real name and original address in 1986 and had extensively toured African and Gulf countries where he realised that the Arab nations were not sympathetic to the "Kashmir cause". He also met other Muslim leaders in the UK including Maulana Iamail, who was also of Indian-origin and was engaged in the construction of mosques and madrasas in Mangolia and Albania.