Mumbai: Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Deobandi terrorist active in Kashmir, is an army of the Jihadi group. The primary objective of the group is to separate Kashmir from India and merge into Pakistan. It has mainly carried out many attacks in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It maintained close ties with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and alliance with them continues.
In 2016, Jaish was suspected to be responsible for the attack on Pathankot airbase in India. The Indian government and some other sources accused Pakistan of helping Jaish to conduct the attack. Pakistan refused to help Jaish, and arrested several members of Jaish in connection with the assault, which was then issued by the security establishment according to a report in Don. Pakistan called the report “concocted”
Immediately after this, there was an attack on the Indian Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan. Both India and Pakistan condemned the attack and remained on course with their peace process. Pakistan has also followed the lead provided by India and raided JM’s offices.
It announced the formation of a joint investigation team with India to investigate the attack. It was also announced that Masood Azhar was taken in “protective custody”. However, JeM issued a statement saying that anyone has been arrested.
With the loyalty of the Taliban in 2002, most JEM members left the renegade groups to join. However, the group of Masood Azhar was given attention to the recruitment of combatants for Afghan jihad in 2008. In 2010, Interior Minister Rehman Malik of Pakistan said that JM-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba were associated with the Lashkar associated with Pakistan, Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Within South Punjab, JM is closely linked to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba. Scholars Abu Zahab and Roy said that the three organizations appear as “the same party” which focus on different areas of activity.
JeM relates to his ancestor, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. Apart from this, the group has operational relations with Lashkar-e-Taiba, which it had planned to launch the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. This ISI-sponsored Joint Jihad Council, joined the umbrella organization of 13-16 terrorist organizations, who fought in the Indian administered Kashmir.
Notable Incidents
- The group, in coordination with Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been implicated in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack in New Delhi. It has been suspected in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
- Rahul Gandhi’s kidnapping plot was an unsuccessful plot of the terrorist group to kidnap a major Indian political personality in exchange for 42 terrorists imprisoned in India. Many newspapers reported that the political personality was Rahul Gandhi, the descendants of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty of India.
- As a member of Jaish-e-Mohammed, an informant has allegedly helped the police to plot a plot to detain four people in a synagogue in New York City, as well as stinger missiles on military aircraft in the United States.
- Helped kill Four were arrested in May 2009. One of the four, in the name of James Cromiti, expressed the desire to join the Jaish-e-Mohammed. This expression had allegedly occurred almost a year before the arrest.
- In January 2016, members of the group were suspected of carrying out the Pathankot attack.
- In September 2016, the group was accused of carrying out the Uri attack. Three groups of 4 members each are said to have infiltrated into Kashmir through the Line of Control, one
- Attacked in Poonch sector and one at the Army brigade in Uri. Third group has been untraceable.
- On February 14 of 2019 a group of people of this terrorist groups killed 44 CRPF jawans of Indian police forces in suicide bombing using a car.
