Jaish-e-Mohammed

Jaish-e-Mohammed
جَيْشِ مُحَمَّدٍؐ
The flag of Jaish-e-Mohammed
Leader	Maulana Masood Azhar
Supreme Commander	Abdul Rauf Azhar
Dates of operation	2000–present
Group(s)	Lashkar-e-Mustafa (Active In Kashmir)[1]
Headquarters	Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Ideology	Deobandi Islamism[2] Jihadism[3] Islamic fundamentalism[2]
Notable attacks	2016 Uri attack 2019 Pulwama attack
Part of	United Jihad Council Operation Tupac[4]
Allies	State allies Pakistan[3][5] Afghanistan Taliban[6] Non-State allies Al-Qaeda[7][8] Lashkar-e-Taiba Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Al-Badr Hizbul Mujahideen Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind Lashkar-e-Jhangvi[9] Al Rashid Trust[9] Indian Mujahideen[10] People’s Anti-Fascist Front[11]
Opponents	State opponents India
Battles and wars	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir 2019 Pulwama attack
Designated as a terrorist group by	Australia Canada[12] India Pakistan Russia United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States UN[13] BRICS[14]

Jaish e-Mohammed (Urdu: جَيْشِ مُحَمَّدٍؐ) is a militant group active in Kashmir.^[15][16][17] The group's goal is to put Indian controlled Kashmir into the control of Pakistan. The group has also been allegedly supported by the Pakistani government in its efforts to take control of Indian controlled Kashmir.^[18][19]

1. ↑ "Kashmir Tigers: Another militant outfit emerges, fourth in two years". 23 January 2021. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Jaish-e-Mohammad: A profile". BBC News. 2002-02-06. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Moj, Deoband Madrassah Movement (2015), p. 98 harvp error: no target: CITEREFMoj,_Deoband_Madrassah_Movement2015 (help): "Deobandis like Masood Azhar, a graduate of Jamia Binouria who later set up a jihadist outfit named Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) in 2000, reportedly at the behest of Pakistan's military establishment."
4. ↑ John Pike (25 July 2002). "Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence". Federation of American Scientists. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008.
5. ↑ Jaffrelot, The Pakistan Paradox (2015), p. 520 harvp error: no target: CITEREFJaffrelot,_The_Pakistan_Paradox2015 (help): "as soon as he was freed, Masood Azhar was back in Pakistan where he founded a new jihadist movement, Jaish-e-Mohammed, which became one of the jihadist groups the ISI used in Kashmir and elsewhere."
6. ↑ "Taliban's Kashmir policy: Rhetoric, ideology, and interests". Observer Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2022. Essentially, JeM maintains eight camps in Afghanistan's Nangahar—three of which are under the direct control of the Taliban.
7. ↑ Popovic, The Perils of Weak Organization (2015), pp. 921, 925, 926. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFPopovic,_The_Perils_of_Weak_Organization2015 (help)
8. ↑ Riedel, Deadly Embrace (2012) harvp error: no target: CITEREFRiedel,_Deadly_Embrace2012 (help): "The answer is JeM's friend and ally, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda." (p. 69) "Or as Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik has put it, "They—Lashkar-e-Janghvi, the Sipah-e-Sohaba Pakistan, and Jaish-e-Mohammad—are allies of the Taliban and al Qaeda" and do indeed pursue many of the same goals." (p. 100)
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Pakistan Archived 19 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Mapping Militants. Stanford University.
10. ↑ Indian Mujahideen Archived 9 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
11. ↑ "People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) – Jammu & Kashmir". Tracking Terrorism. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
12. ↑ "Currently listed entities". Public Safety Canada. Government of Canada. 21 December 2018. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
13. ↑ Freedman, Benjamin (May 2010). "Officially Blacklisted Extremist/Terrorist (Support) Organizations: a Comparison of Lists from six Countries and two International Organizations" (PDF). Perspectives on Terrorism. 4 (2): 46–52. JSTOR 26298448. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
14. ↑ "BRICS declaration names Pakistan-based terror groups in diplomatic victory for India". Mint.com. 4 September 2017. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
15. ↑ Cronin et al., Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) (2004), p. 40 harvp error: no target: CITEREFCronin_et_al.,_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations_(FTOs)2004 (help): "The JEM is a Pakistan-based, militant Islamic group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in March 2000."
16. ↑ Cronin et al., Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) (2004), pp. 40–43 harvp error: no target: CITEREFCronin_et_al.,_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations_(FTOs)2004 (help)
17. ↑ Cronin et al., Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) (2004), pp. 40–43 harvp error: no target: CITEREFCronin_et_al.,_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations_(FTOs)2004 (help)
18. ↑ MARTUSCIELLO, Fulvio. "Parliamentary question | VP/HR - Pakistan's support to Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists who attacked Pathankot | E-001720/2016 | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
19. ↑ "India slams Pakistan support to Jaish-e-Mohammed". The Economic Times. 2019-02-15. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2024-03-10.