International News: Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has launched an online course called 'Tufat al-Muminat' to recruit and raise money for its new women’s wing, Jamat ul-Muminat, equal to officials familiar with the matter said.
Online Training Led by Masood Azhar’s Sisters
The online undertow is meant to “influence and recruit” women into JeM’s sexuality unit through religious and jihad-based teachings. The 40-minute daily classes, starting from November 8, will be held online and led by JeM founder Masood Azhar’s sisters, Sadiya Azhar and Samaira Azhar. Each woman joining the undertow must pay Rs 500 (500 Pakistani rupees) as a donation, officials said. One of them widow that women related to JeM leaders, including Masood Azhar’s family members and other top commanders’ relatives, will guide participants well-nigh their duties in the name of jihad and Islam.
Formation of JeM’s Women’s Wing
This move comes soon without Masood Azhar, who is listed as a global terrorist by the UN, spoken the launch of Jamat ul-Muminat on October 8 at Markaz Usman-o-Ali in Bahawalpur. On October 19, JeM moreover held a gathering named Dukhtaran-e-Islam in Rawalkot, in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, to vamp women to the new group. Sources said that due to Pakistan’s inobtrusive culture, which limits women’s public activities, JeM has shifted to online platforms for recruitment. The group reportedly aims to build a women’s unit like those of ISIS, Hamas, and LTTE, possibly using them in suicide or fedayeen missions.
Fundraising Under a New Name
The Rs 500 undertow fee shows how Pakistan-based terror groups alimony raising money in variegated ways despite the country’s claims of pursuit the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) rules, sources added. Masood Azhar has chosen his younger sister, Sadiya Azhar — the widow of JeM commander Yusuf Azhar, who was killed in India’s Operation Sindoor — to throne Jamat ul-Muminat. Other leaders in the steering include his sister Safia and Afreera Farooq, wife of Pulwama wade conspirator Umar Farooq, who died in a unpeace with Indian forces.
Focus on Vulnerable Women Recruits
Experts monitoring JeM’s activities said the group is targeting the wives of its fighters and poor women studying at its centres in Bahawalpur, Karachi, Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Haripur, and Mansehra. A senior counter-terror officer said that without Operation Sindoor and the Pahalgam attack, JeM realised women could help stave security checks and manage logistics or propaganda work. This online undertow is part of that plan. Earlier, JeM, a Deobandi-based organisation, did not indulge women to take part in jihad. But intelligence inputs suggest that Masood Azhar and his brother, Talha al-Saif, have now tried women’s participation in their network. The move reflects strategies used by ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, and LTTE, which have all employed sexuality fighters and suicide bombers in the past.
