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Jaish-e-Mohammad’s apical commandant Masood Ilyas Kashmiri appeared successful a video admitting that the counterterror onslaught nether Operation Sindoor tore the household members of the panic group’s chief, Maulana Masood Azhar, into pieces.
The May 7 onslaught targeted Jaish-e-Mohammad’s headquarters, Markaz Subhanallah, located successful Bahawalpur successful mainland Pakistan.In the viral clip circulating connected societal media, Ilyas said, “In defending this land, we embraced militancy and fought successful Delhi, Kabul and Kandahar to support its borders. After giving everything, connected May 7, Indian forces struck successful Bahawalpur, tearing isolated the household of Maulana Masood Azhar.”
The video shows Ilyas speaking successful a high-pitched code into a microphone, with respective gun-wielding guards lasting successful the background.
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JeM's HQ successful Bahawalpur
Situated connected NH-5 (the Karachi–Torkham Highway) successful Bahawalpur, Punjab province, the Markaz functioned arsenic the operational office of Jaish-e-Mohammad. More than a twelve large panic attacks, including the 2019 Pulwama strike, were planned astatine this site. The Pulwama attackers were besides trained here.
The installation has housed implicit 600 cadres and regularly hosted grooming sessions for JeM members.Ilyas’ remarks notation to Operation Sindoor launched connected May 7, a large retaliatory subject enactment pursuing the Pahalgam panic attack. The onslaught was aimed astatine panic infrastructure backed and sponsored by Pakistan.On April 22, successful Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, a Lashkar-e-Taiba helping carried retired a brutal onslaught connected tourists successful the scenic Baisaran Valley, sidesplitting 26 civilians.
This was 1 of the deadliest panic strikes successful India successful caller years.India’s subject effect targeted 9 large panic hubs crossed Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. This included Jaish-e-Mohammad’s office successful Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s office successful Muridke, among different cardinal installations. Each of these centers accused of harbouring anti-India panic was blown to bits by Indian equipped forces.Following the strikes, Pakistan responded with drones and missiles connected consecutive nights. These were intercepted and neutralised by India’s aerial defence systems, preventing nonaccomplishment of beingness oregon harm to spot connected the Indian side.India past carried retired further precision strikes connected Pakistan’s aerial infrastructure, targeting immoderate of its astir important bases, including Nur Khan Airbase and Rahim Yar Khan Airbase. These strikes marked the 2nd question of Indian retaliation and signalled a crisp escalation aft the Pahalgam attack.
