In a baffling terror rule book, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar has stipulated strange laws for women trainees that would seemingly cripple combat rules.
A 21-minute-long audio recording of a voice claimed to be that of Azhar purportedly lays down a strict communication code that prevents women trainees belonging to the newly set up women’s wing of the terror outfit—‘Jamat-ul-Mominat’—from talking with anyone other than their immediate family members. Communications with any unrelated men, even on the phone or through messenger, are banned.
The audio recording, sourced from the Indian security establishment, also announces that the ‘Jamat-ul-Mominat’ will have branches in every district of Pakistan. Each district unit will be headed by a ‘District Muntazima’ who will be responsible for recruiting women into the organisation.
Notably, Azhar, founder of the JeM, was one of the prisoners released on demand by Indian authorities during the IC 814 plane hijack in December 1999.
The voice, claimed to be that of Azhar, also lays down training modules for the women recruits. Women joining ‘Jamat-ul-Mominat’ will receive a 15-day-long induction-cum-indoctrination course called ‘Daura-e-Taskiya’ that will be conducted at Markaz Usman-o-Ali in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur. This induction course is understood to be a version of the ‘Daura-e-Tarbiat’, which is meant for the male recruits.
21 minutes long message from terrorist hiding under protection of PAK army motivating women to join and do jihad.
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Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) leader Maulana Masood Azhar has launched a women's wing called Jamat-ul-Mominat. In an audio recording, Azhar outlines plans to recruit and… pic.twitter.com/eTTzYP3L6h
The online course for ‘Jamat-ul-Mominat’—held five days a week—began on October 25.
The next training module for women recruits is the ‘Daura-Ayat-ul-Nisah’. Besides teaching Islamic texts, instructions will be issued to the women on how to “conduct jihad”.
The voice recording also cites Indian army women soldiers and Indian women journalists as the main reasons for setting up the ‘Jamat-ul-Mominat’ and assures that any woman joining the organisation “will go straight to paradise from her grave after death.”
The new organisation is led by women from Azhar’s family, with his sister Sadiya Azhar being anointed as the head of the women’s brigade. Another of Azhar’s sisters, Samaira Azhar and Afeera Farooq, widow of Pulwama attacker Umar Farooq, also form part of the leadership.
