Masood Azhar claims JeM has thousands of suicide bombers in new audio clip

NEW DELHI: A caller audio recording, purportedly featuring Maulana Masood Azhar, the elusive main of the panic outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), surfaced connected societal media, boasting that his organisation present commands "thousands" of termination bombers prepared for contiguous deployment.The clip surfaced astatine a clip erstwhile Pahalgam mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba's lawman main Saifullah Kasuri was captured connected video claiming that the Pakistan service invited him to pb ceremonial prayers of its ain soldiers aft Operation Sindoor past May. Both clips were posted connected Telegram and X by pro-ISI accounts.The messages are being viewed arsenic a hopeless propaganda effort to revitalise a radical reeling from devastating losses inflicted by Indian information forces during Operation Sindoor.

Kasuri's code was made from a school, with hundreds of children disposable successful the audience, portion Azhar excessively seemingly addressed a nationalist gathering, sources said.The latest signaling features a defiant Azhar claiming that the sheer fig of his followers would "cause an uproar successful the planetary media" if afloat revealed. He asserted that these recruits are driven by a fanatical obsession with "martyrdom", explicitly stating that they bash not question worldly comforts similar cars, motorcycles, oregon overseas visas.

"They lone inquire Allah for 1 thing: martyrdom," the UN-designated violent claimed, attempting to task a representation of precocious morale and spiritual condemnation among his cadres.However, defence experts suggested this was small much than a "hollow threat" and a motion of terrible vexation arising retired of Operation Sindoor, a bid of precision strikes by India successful May 2025 that decimated JeM's infrastructure and eliminated astatine slightest 10 of Azhar’s adjacent relatives and apical aides successful Bahawalpur."This audio appears to beryllium a calculated effort to prevention look aft the group’s enactment was "torn to pieces", arsenic precocious admitted by different JeM commanders," said a source.Interestingly, Masood Azhar was not seen successful nationalist since a 2019 blast astatine his Bahawalpur hideout, starring to persistent rumours astir his wellness and location. This latest audio, portion lacking ocular impervious of his life, indicates that the panic mastermind is inactive attempting to run from the shadows, heavy wrong a harmless haven successful Pakistan.Security agencies are present intimately analysing the dependable samples and metadata of the clip to way its root and measure the existent menace level posed by the group’s surviving sleeper cells, sources said.