Jaish camp hit by IAF strike a hub of terror training
5 years, 10 months ago

Jaish camp hit by IAF strike a hub of terror training

Hindustan Times  

The Jaish-e-Mohammed facility at Balakot in Pakistan, which was targeted by an Indian air strike on Tuesday, was the venue for a gathering last year during which top JeM leaders extolled the role of the local madrasa in producing jihadi fighters sent to Jammu and Kashmir. JeM chief Masood Azhar’s younger brother Abdul Rauf Asghar and his brother-in-law Yusuf Azhar alias Ustad Ghauri were among jihadi leaders and clerics who attended the annual conference at Madrassa Teleemul-Quran at Jaba Top in April 2018, according to a report in JeM’s journal al-Qalam, published around the time. Asghar, the deputy chief of JeM, accused of playing a key role in planning the 2016 attack on Pathankot airbase, was quoted by the journal as telling the gathering: “The youth who rise from this madrassa have broken the arrogance of the mountains of Kashmir and lit the torch of jihad there, and they will, God willing, continue to keep it alight.” He talked about the importance of jihad in his address and mentioned how jihad had helped repulse those fighting against Islam. After the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the JeM had moved its training camps to Balakot area of Pakistan’s KhyberPakhtunkhwa province, located about 40 km by road from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistanoccupied Kashmir.

History of this topic

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5 years, 6 months ago
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