Masood Azhar’s Family Hit in Bahawalpur Strikes, Jaish Commander Confirms After Op Sindoor.
Months after India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting multiple terror establishments in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), a senior Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) commander has admitted that the family of the group’s chief, Masood Azhar, suffered heavy losses in Bahawalpur.
In a viral video, JeM commander Masood Ilyas Kashmiri is seen describing how Indian forces struck their Bahawalpur hideout.
“On May 7, Maulana Masood Azhar’s family was torn apart by Indian forces in Bahawalpur,” Kashmiri says in Urdu, flanked by armed men.
Operation Sindoor
The strikes came weeks after 26 civilians were killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. Indian armed forces conducted coordinated overnight raids on nine terror facilities linked to JeM and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) across Pakistan and PoK. Pakistan later admitted the strikes hit sites in Bahawalpur, Kotli and Muridke—all hubs of extremist activity.
Bahawalpur, Pakistan’s 12th largest city and the nerve centre of JeM, houses the group’s operational headquarters at the Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah (Usman-o-Ali campus).
JeM, founded in the early 2000s by UN-proscribed terrorist Masood Azhar, has been behind numerous attacks in India. After Operation Sindoor, Pakistani media reported that Azhar himself admitted 10 members of his family were killed in the Indian strikes.
Azhar remains in hiding. Pakistani politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari recently claimed that Islamabad does not know his whereabouts but added Pakistan would be “happy to arrest him” if India provided credible information.
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