The slowing down of the Indo-Pak peace process by New Delhi has compelled Islamabad to reactivate the banned jehadi organisation - Jaish-e-Muhammad.
ISLAMABAD: The slowing down of the Indo-Pak peace process by New Delhi has compelled Islamabad to reactivate the banned jehadi organisation - Jaish-e-Muhammad - apparently for re-launching cross border offensives in Jammu & Kashmir.
According to highly-placed sources in Rawalpindi, which houses the headquarters of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the Jaish is being reorganised under the leadership of Mufti Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar, who has already fallen out of favour with the country’s military and intelligence establishment especially after his group was found involved in the December 25, 2003 suicide attacks on General Musharraf’s life in Rawalpindi. Since these attacks, Masood Azhar had gone under ground, saying that those involved in the suicide bombings were members of the Jaish’s dissident group.
The JeM has already established a transit camp in Rawalpindi for its activists who are coming from southern Punjab and travelling to Kohat, a small town in the central North West Frontier Province (NWFP), where another camp had been established. Mufti Rauf has appeared on the scene after his elder brother Maulana Masood Azhar was asked by his spy masters to vanish from the scene for the time being, but keep managing the JeM with the help of his brother, who is neither sought by the US authorities in connection with the murder of Daniel Pearl nor wanted by New Delhi for the December 1999 hijacking of an Indian aircraft.
Before being asked to limit its military operations in J&K in 2003, the Jaish had been held responsible for the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack in New Delhi. The JeM is considered to be the pioneer of suicide bombings in the region which is opposed to a peaceful version of jehad, saying that in Islam, the only meaning of jehad was killing and any other interpretation went against the religion.
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