Jaish-e Mohammed

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Jaish-e Mohammed ( JeM , Urdu جیش محمد Muhammad's Army ), also Jaish-e Muhammed , Jaish-e Mohammad or Jaish-e Muhammad ( abbreviated as JeM ), is the most important Islamist organization of the Mujahideen of Pakistan . It has been declared a terrorist organization in India , the United Kingdom and the United States .

history

The Jaishi-e Mohammed was founded in Pakistan by Maulana Masood Azhar in the late 1990s after his followers split from the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen . Originally called Lashkar-e-Mohammad, the name was changed to the name Jaishi-e Mohammed, which is used today, after Azam Tariq criticized the founding name as sounding too similar to another terrorist organization.

Their main goal is the secession of Kashmir from India. The organization carried out several attacks in the Indian part of Kashmir. Jaish-e Mohammed is considered one of the most dangerous organizations in Jammu and Kashmir.

The organization coordinates with Laschkar e-Taiba and was involved in the December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament in New Delhi . It was then officially banned in Pakistan in 2002, but continued operations from bases in Bahawalpur , Punjab .

It is also believed that she was involved in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi . An informant posing as a member of Jaish-e Mohammed helped police arrest four people accused of killing the synagogue in New York City and shooting down a Stinger missile on a US American Military aircraft were involved. The four were arrested in May 2009. James Cromitie, one of the four arrested, said he had been forced to join the Jaish-e Mohammed. He announced this after a year in prison.

On January 2, 2016, five Jaish-e Mohammed fighters attacked the air force base in Pathankot in the state of Punjab near the border with Pakistan. After 13 hours of firefight, all of the attackers and three Air Force soldiers were killed.

On December 26, 2017, Noor Mohammad Tantray , the local commander of JeM in Kashmir, was killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces.

On February 14, 2019, a suicide bomber from Jaish-e Mohammed carried out the worst attack on the Indian security forces since the unrest in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989 near the town of Awantipora ( Pulwama district ). At least 44 Indian reserve police were killed. Indian military and police forces then launched an offensive in the course of which the alleged mastermind of the attack, Abdul Rasheed Ghazi, alias Kamran, was killed on February 18, 2019 in the Pulwama district. In response, Indian Mirage 2000 fighter planes penetrated Pakistani airspace on February 26, 2019 and launched cruise missiles at a supposed Jaish-e Mohammed training camp near Balakot . According to Indian sources, several of the group's fighters were killed, while Pakistani authorities denied that there were any fatalities.

Reports that Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar was killed in an Indian air strike have been denied by the Pakistani media. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi confirmed that Azhar is in Pakistan and cannot leave his home for health reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pulwama attack: What is militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad? BBC News, February 15, 2019, accessed February 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b c Audrey Kurth Cronin, Huda Aden, Adam Frost, Benjamin Jones: Foreign Terrorist Organizations . (PDF) In: Congressional Research Service (Ed.): CRS Report for Congress . , Washington DC6. February 2004, pp. 40-43. Retrieved December 2, 2009.
  3. ↑ Jaish-e-Mohammed. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Jaish-e-Mohammad: A profile (English) , British Broadcasting Corporation. February 6, 2002. Retrieved May 29, 2010. 
  5. ↑ Attack May Spoil Kashmir Summit . spacewar.com
  6. ↑ a b Saeed Shah: Terror group builds big base under Pakistani officials' noses . ( September 30, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive ) McClatchy Newspapers, September 13, 2009
  7. ↑ newsday.com
  8. ↑ reuters.com
  9. ↑ english.aljazeera.net
  10. ↑ Terrorist attack in India: firefight on air force base on the border with Pakistan. Spiegel Online , January 2, 2016, accessed January 2, 2016 .
  11. ^ All 5 Terrorists Killed In Pathankot, Tweets Rajnath Singh: 10 Developments. New Delhi Television (NDTV), January 2, 2016, accessed January 2, 2016 .
  12. ^ Indian police kill Pakistan-based militant Noor Mohammad Tantray in Kashmir. Deutsche Welle, December 26, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Kashmir attack: Bomb kills 40 Indian paramilitary police in convoy. BBC News, February 14, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  14. ^ Raj Shekhar: Pulwama attack mastermind Abdul Rasheed Ghazi killed by security forces in Kashmir. The Times of India, February 18, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  15. ^ Judah Ari Gross: "India used Israeli arms for strike inside Pakistan - report" timesofisrael.com February 26, 2019
  16. ↑ Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar is alive: Pakistani media. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Pakistan FM: "Pakistan never wants to escalate" - CNN Video. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .