Congress President Rahul Gandhi has claimed that Masood Azhar, a convict of the Pulwama attack, was released from India by the BJP in 1999. He said that India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval went to Kandahar to hand over Azhar. We found that Rahul Gandhi's claim that “Ajit Doval had gone to Kandahar from Delhi in the aircraft with Masood Azhar” is not correct. Mr Doval was already in Kandahar and was involved in conversations regarding the safe release of the passengers in the hijacked plane.