Overview

• Masood Azhar is being shuttled among ISI-protected safe houses in Rawalpindi, Gilgit-Baltistan and Peshawar to evade Indian tracking efforts.
• JeM’s July 30 crowdfunding appeal calls for discreet donations to reconstruct the Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah complex in Bahawalpur.
• Maxar satellite imagery confirmed that May’s Operation Sindoor precision strikes demolished the group’s central training facility and killed over 70 militants.
• Cadres report plummeting morale since the airstrikes and have circulated archival audio clips to project Azhar’s continued on-site leadership.
• Azhar remains a UN Security Council–listed global terrorist and is wanted in India for multiple deadly attacks, including the 2001 Parliament assault and 2019 Pulwama bombing.