Overview

• A letter issued in Masood Azhar’s name via Al-Qalam Media announced Jamaat-ul-Mominaat, with enrollment starting October 8 at Markaz Usman-o-Ali in Bahawalpur.
• Multiple reports say the unit will be led by Sadiya Azhar, Masood Azhar’s sister, whose husband Yusuf Azhar was killed in the May 7 strike on Markaz Subhanallah.
• The drive is reportedly enlisting wives of JeM commanders and economically vulnerable women at centers in Bahawalpur, Karachi, Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Haripur and Mansehra.
• Intelligence inputs cited by outlets say Masood Azhar and Talha al-Saif approved incorporating women into operations, with potential training of female suicide attackers not independently verified.
• Sources also describe a push to extend activity into India through encrypted networks and social media in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and parts of southern India.