Jaish-e-Mohammed

Jaish-e-Mohammed is a Pakistan-based <a href="/facts/Deobandi/amIAQIgM">Deobandi</a> <a href="/facts/Islamism/4u3G2nEf">Islamist</a> <a href="/facts/Islamic_terrorism/aDNpLB1X">militant</a> group active in <a href="/facts/Kashmir/Rok34JM5">Kashmir</a>. The group's primary motive is to separate <a href="/facts/Kashmir/Rok34JM5">Kashmir</a> from <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a> and merge it into <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>.
Since its inception in 2000, the group has carried out several attacks, primarily in the Indian administered <a href="/facts/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(union_territory)/F1FbqQpw">Jammu and Kashmir</a>. It portrays Kashmir as a "gateway" to the entire India, whose Muslims are also deemed to be in need of liberation. It also maintained close relations with the <a href="/facts/Taliban/VJC0WJlq">Taliban</a> and <a href="/facts/Al-Qaeda/CIQSk3D7">Al-Qaeda</a> in Afghanistan and continues to be allied with these groups.
JeM was apparently created with the support of Pakistan's <a href="/facts/Inter-Services_Intelligence/fvkwo04J">Inter-Services Intelligence</a> (ISI), which uses it to fight in Kashmir and other places, and continues to provide it backing. The JeM has been banned in Pakistan since 2002, but resurfaced under other names. Its apparent variants openly continue to operate several facilities in the country.
According to <a href="/facts/B._Raman/9sPK7kku">B. Raman</a>, Jaish-e-Mohammed is viewed as the "deadliest" and "the principal Islamic terrorist organisation in Jammu and Kashmir". The group was responsible for several terror attacks: the <a href="/facts/2001_attack_on_Jammu_and_Kashmir_legislative_assembly/S9dwF6G5">2001 attack on Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly</a>, the <a href="/facts/2001_Indian_Parliament_attack/XA0KreS4">2001 Indian Parliament attack</a>, the <a href="/facts/2016_Pathankot_attack/YymwCn14">2016 Pathankot airbase attack</a>, the 2016 attack on the Indian Mission in <a href="/facts/Mazar-i-Sharif/IKXduF4P">Mazar-i-Sharif</a>, the <a href="/facts/2016_Uri_attack/0MYbPWVq">2016 Uri attack</a>, and the <a href="/facts/2019_Pulwama_attack/6rmG0NPD">2019 Pulwama attack</a>, each of which has had strategic consequences for <a href="/facts/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_relations/CVWuLWjn">India–Pakistan relations</a>. The group has been <a href="/facts/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups/LmnuRFFL">designated as a terrorist organisation</a> by <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>, <a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russia</a>, <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australia</a>, <a href="/facts/Canada/cWWFM8oc">Canada</a>, <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a>, <a href="/facts/New_Zealand/4mpSlJdg">New Zealand</a>, the <a href="/facts/United_Arab_Emirates/o1bEjgbR">United Arab Emirates</a>, the <a href="/facts/European_Union/6GYcR8qM">European Union</a>, the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>, the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, and the <a href="/facts/United_Nations/fgXLnmgT">United Nations</a>.
In 2016, JeM was suspected of being responsible for <a href="/facts/2016_Pathankot_attack/YymwCn14">an attack on the Pathankot airbase</a> in India. The Indian government, and some other sources, accused Pakistan of assisting JeM in conducting the attack. Pakistan denied assisting JeM, and arrested several members of JeM in connection with the attack, who were then released by the security establishment according to a report in <a href="/facts/Dawn_(newspaper)/JGYqrWkk">Dawn</a>. Pakistan called the report an "amalgamation of fiction and fabrication". In February 2019, the group took responsibility for a <a href="/facts/2019_Pulwama_attack/6rmG0NPD">suicide bombing attack</a> on a security convoy in the <a href="/facts/Pulwama_district/IE4v5c0r">Pulwama district</a> that killed 40 security personnel, named as one of the largest attacks in recent years.

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