A senior Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist has directly implicated, albeit in a move to hail it, his boss Masood Azhar in planning and executing attacks in Delhi and Mumbai, shredding Pakistan’s repeated denials of sheltering terror groups.
Masood Ilyas Kashmiri, a top commander of the UN-designated outfit, admitted in a video that Azhar, one of India’s most wanted terrorists, carried out attacks from Pakistan after being released by India following five years of imprisonment. Kashmiri revealed that Azhar’s base was in Balakot, which was targeted by Indian airstrikes in 2019.
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“After escaping the prison of Tihar Jail in Delhi, Amir-ul-Mujahideen Maulana Masood Azhar comes to Pakistan. The soil of Balakot provides him a base to carry forward his vision, mission, and programme Delhi and Bombay [Mumbai]—this is how Maulana Masood Azhar, the Amir-ul-Mujahideen who terrorised the country, appears,” Kashmiri said in the video.
Balakot to Bahawalpur: The Terror Trail
The JeM commander openly credited Pakistan’s Balakot as a launchpad for Azhar’s campaign against India, even invoking Osama bin Laden as a “martyr” who shaped the outfit’s ideology. His admission backs India’s long-standing claim that Jaish camps operated with impunity under Pakistan’s military-security establishment, despite Islamabad’s assertions that no terror hideouts existed.
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In another disclosure, Kashmiri said the May 7 strike on Jaish’s Bahawalpur headquarters, Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah, caused devastating losses, including the deaths of Azhar’s family members, who were “torn apart” in the bombing. The attack was part of Operation Sindoor, in which Indian forces destroyed multiple terror launchpads in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.
Pakistan Generals at Terror Funerals
Kashmiri further revealed that Pakistan Army generals were ordered to attend funerals of slain JeM terrorists in Bahawalpur, allegedly under the directive of Army Chief Gen Asim Munir.
Videos of Pakistani military officials leading terrorist funerals surfaced in May, drawing sharp criticism from India for granting state honours to proscribed terrorists.
The JeM commander’s testimony has once again spotlighted Pakistan’s duplicity — cooperating with the West on counterterrorism while sheltering jihadist groups at home.
