NEW DELHI: Masood Azhar's Jaish-e-Mohammad is still Pakistan intelligence company ISI's most-favoured team for terror assaults in India, after Lashkar-e-Taiba made means for it two years in the past.
Intelligence assets in Srinagar advised IdealNews that Jaish, which has been excited by suicide assaults in Kashmir since its launch in 2000, emerged as a stronger contender towards Hafiz Saeed's Lashkar after the latter's guardian organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah introduced that it will input mainstream politics.
As a result, ISI, emboldened through China's repeated blockage of India's bid to designate Azhar a terrorist at the United Nations, decided to spend most of its assets on Jaish. Last yr, after China obviously advised New Delhi that it was once not going to blacklist Azhar, the Jaish chief issued a risk to the BJP government over Ram Mandir, pronouncing his men have been ready to put down their lives and burn down the temple if it was once constructed.
Founder of Jaish, Azhar is the mastermind of several deadly assaults in India, together with the one at the Uri military base in J&Ok in 2016 during which 19 security group of workers have been killed. Though he was once detained for a while under 'protecting custody' after the Pathankot terror assault, he has been freely and actively protecting public rallies and establishing recruitment camps for Jaish since 2016. In the early 90s, Azhar travelled in West Asia, Africa and UK to raise funds for jihad in Kashmir and continues to have a massive following in Pakistan's Punjab.
Incidentally, Azhar, launched through India in change for the passengers of the hijacked IC814 airplane, in contrast to different terror team chiefs based totally in Pakistan (Saeed and Syed Salahuddin) has dedicated his circle of relatives to jihad in Kashmir. In the last one year, he sent several of his younger nephews to recruit, educate and organise terrorists in Kashmir and launch assaults.
Two years in the past, his nephew Talha Rashid was once killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama. Another nephew, Mohammad Usman, was once killed in a gun-battle in Tral. According to intelligence assets, Mohammed Umer, son of Azhar's elder brother Ibrahim, additionally infiltrated into J&Ok last yr.
NIA, in 2018, additionally filed a chargesheet towards Azhar's brother and Jaish's deputy chief Maulana Abdul Rouf Asgar for making plans the assault on an Army camp in Nagrota in November 2016.
Intelligence assets consider that Thursday's Pulwama suicide bombing may be a handiwork of Asgar.
Intelligence assets in Srinagar advised IdealNews that Jaish, which has been excited by suicide assaults in Kashmir since its launch in 2000, emerged as a stronger contender towards Hafiz Saeed's Lashkar after the latter's guardian organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah introduced that it will input mainstream politics.
As a result, ISI, emboldened through China's repeated blockage of India's bid to designate Azhar a terrorist at the United Nations, decided to spend most of its assets on Jaish. Last yr, after China obviously advised New Delhi that it was once not going to blacklist Azhar, the Jaish chief issued a risk to the BJP government over Ram Mandir, pronouncing his men have been ready to put down their lives and burn down the temple if it was once constructed.
Founder of Jaish, Azhar is the mastermind of several deadly assaults in India, together with the one at the Uri military base in J&Ok in 2016 during which 19 security group of workers have been killed. Though he was once detained for a while under 'protecting custody' after the Pathankot terror assault, he has been freely and actively protecting public rallies and establishing recruitment camps for Jaish since 2016. In the early 90s, Azhar travelled in West Asia, Africa and UK to raise funds for jihad in Kashmir and continues to have a massive following in Pakistan's Punjab.
Incidentally, Azhar, launched through India in change for the passengers of the hijacked IC814 airplane, in contrast to different terror team chiefs based totally in Pakistan (Saeed and Syed Salahuddin) has dedicated his circle of relatives to jihad in Kashmir. In the last one year, he sent several of his younger nephews to recruit, educate and organise terrorists in Kashmir and launch assaults.
Two years in the past, his nephew Talha Rashid was once killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama. Another nephew, Mohammad Usman, was once killed in a gun-battle in Tral. According to intelligence assets, Mohammed Umer, son of Azhar's elder brother Ibrahim, additionally infiltrated into J&Ok last yr.
NIA, in 2018, additionally filed a chargesheet towards Azhar's brother and Jaish's deputy chief Maulana Abdul Rouf Asgar for making plans the assault on an Army camp in Nagrota in November 2016.
Intelligence assets consider that Thursday's Pulwama suicide bombing may be a handiwork of Asgar.
For 2 years now, Jaish has been Pakistan's sword arm
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