Masood Azhar implicated by JeM commander in Delhi and Mumbai terror attacks from Balakot base

A senior Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist has directly implicated his boss Masood Azhar in planning and executing attacks in Delhi and Mumbai, shredding Pakistan’s repeated denials of sheltering terror groups on its soil.

Masood Ilyas Kashmiri, a top commander of the UN-designated terror group, admitted in a video that Azhar, one of India’s most wanted terrorists, orchestrated terror attacks from Pakistan after being released by India after five years of imprisonment. Kashmiri said Azhar’s base was in Bakalot, which was targeted in airstrikes by India in 2019.

“After escaping the prison of Tihar Jail in Delhi, Amir-ul-Mujahideen Maulana Masood Azhar comes to Pakistan. The soil of Balakot provides him a base to carry forward his vision, mission, and programme Delhi and Bombay [Mumbai]—this is how Maulana Masood Azhar, the Amir-ul-Mujahideen who terrorised the country, appears,” Kashmiri is heard saying.

Kashmiri’s remarks leave Islamabad with little room to deny the presence of terror sanctuaries.

BALAKOT TO BAHAWALPUR: TERROR TRAIL UNMASKED

The Jaish commander openly credited Pakistan’s Balakot as a staging ground for Azhar’s campaign to wield terror against India, even invoking Osama bin Laden as a “martyr” who shaped the ideology.

His admission corroborates India’s long-standing claim that Jaish camps operated freely under the watch of Pakistan’s military-security establishment, despite Islamabad telling the world there were “no terrorist hideouts” within its borders.

In another bombshell, first reported by India Today, Kashmiri said that the May 7 strike on Jaish’s Bahawalpur headquarters, Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah, inflicted devastating losses on Azhar’s family.

Under Operation Sindoor, Indian forces had destroyed multiple terror launchpads across the border and in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.

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