On 14 February 2019, Adil Ahmed Dhar, a 20-year-old suicide bomber, rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a bus carrying Indian paramilitary personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. It’s one of the deadliest terror attacks in three decades, killing 44 and critically injuring many others.
A Pakistan-based jihadi terrorist group, Jaish-e-Muhammad (“Army of Muhammed”), claimed responsibility for the attack. Founded in 2000 by Maulana Masood Azhar, at the behest of Pakistan’s military establishment, Jaish-e-Muhammad has a long history of using jihadist ideology to organise terrorist attacks across the world. It also has close financial and operational links with the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba – and anti-Shia groups such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi/Sipah-e-Sahaba-e-Pakistan.
Its aim is to force India out of Kashmir so that the entire region can become part of Pakistan; The group’s prime mentor is Pakistan, but a world superpower has also got his back: China.
Much before Masood Azhar founded the Jaish-e-Muhammad, he was a part of the radical Islamic group called the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. As its member, Masood Azhar travelled to Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Kashmir, Britain and other parts of the world, spreading hardcore jihadist ideology, seeking funds and recruiting young people as jihadists.
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