In a development that intelligence agencies describe as a deliberate bid to rejuvenate its ranks, the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has reportedly launched a female-focused initiative under the leadership of close relatives of its top commanders.
The initiative, sources told CNN-News18, signals a strategic shift for the militant group toward digitally driven, family-rooted recruitment and mobilisation.
According to intelligence inputs, the group has rolled out an online programme called “Tufat al-Muminat" and created a parallel organisation referred to as Jamat ul-Muminat or the Women’s Brigade. Leadership roles in the new structure are said to be assigned to female relatives of JeM’s senior figures, notably Masood Azhar’s sisters, Sadiya and Samaira Azhar, and the wife of another commander, Af