Azhar’s sister Sadia leading drive
NEW DELHI, Dec 4:
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has recruited over 5,000 women in its newly-launched wing, Jamaat ul Mominaat, and efforts to radicalize them are on.
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Jaish chief Masood Azhar has said the number of recruits in the terror outfit’s women’s wing is on the rise, and there is a need to set up district units now.
“More than 5,000 women have joined. District units will be formed, every district will have a muntazima (manager), and work will be distributed. Five thousand members, in so little time,” Azhar said in a post.
The recruitment drive for Jamaat ul Mominaat began on October 8 at Jaish headquarters, Markaz Usman-o-Ali. As part of the drive, women from Pakistan’s Bahawalpur, Multan, Sialkot, Karachi, Muzaffarabad and Kotli were recruited into the terror outfit.
Sadia, sister of Masood Azhar, helms Jamaat ul Mominaat. Sadia’s husband, Yusuf Azhar, was killed when India carried out Operation Sindoor and targeted terror bases in Pakistan to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack. Afira, the wife of Pulwama attack mastermind Umar Farooq, is also part of the outfit. Farooq was killed in an encounter.
Sources said women are being recruited into Jamaat ul Mominaat and trained online. Every participant has to pay Rs 500 for the classes, they added.
The plan is to radicalize women and form terror brigades to launch fidayeen attacks like ISIS, Hamas and LTTE, the sources said.
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