10 Facts About Jaish-e-Mohammed

Jaish-e-Mohammed is a Pakistan-basedDeobandi Jihadist militant group active in Kashmir which is widely considered as a terrorist group.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is said to have created Jaish-e-Mohammed by working with several Deobandi Islamic jihadis associated with Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.

Jaish-e-Mohammed declared a ban on five extremist groups including the JeM.

Jaish-e-Mohammed maintained that they were already expelled from the organisation and the state should arrest them.

Jaish-e-Mohammed boasted of having 300 suicide attackers at his command and threatened to kill Narendra Modi if he were to become the Prime Minister.

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On 14 February 2019, Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out and claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Lathpora near Awantipora in Pulwama District in Kashmir on a convoy of security forces that killed at least 40 Indian personnel.

Jaish-e-Mohammed had fought in Afghanistan and set up Harkat affiliates in Chechnya, Central Asia and Somalia.

Jaish-e-Mohammed was reputed to have taught the Somalis how to shoot down American Black Hawk helicopters.

Jaish-e-Mohammed was regarded as a close associate of Osama bin Laden, when he was sent to Britain for fund raising in the early 1990s.

Jaish-e-Mohammed was one of the hijackers of the flight IC 814 and served as the "acting leader" of JeM in Masood Azhar's absence in 2007.