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Terror consortium: Hamas, Chinese support, NATO arms—and more

Terror consortium: Hamas, Chinese support, NATO arms—and more

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Virendra Pandit

 

New Delhi: Even before Pakistan came into existence on August 14, 1947, contours of its terror-centric foundations had surfaced: Muhammed Ali Jinnah’s call for “Director Action Day” on August 16, 1946—also known as the “Week of the Long Knives—instigated Muslim fanatics to massacre some 10,000 Hindus in Calcutta (now Kolkata), under the ‘supervision’ of the then Bengal’s Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.

Then, what happened in 1971 in East Pakistan was its logical evolution; and what is happening now in Bangladesh is the reaffirmation of the fact that a Muslim-only country is an anomaly in the modern world. Look at Saudi Arabia, which is also opening up.

What followed until now are only the fruits of the seeds sown by the Jinnah-Suhrawardy back then in their quest to crystallize an intolerant Muslim nation out of a rarefied and tolerant Hindu Civilization.

So, it comes as no surprise that Islamabad is located in Pakistan, not in the birthplace of Islam—Saudi Arabia. And that Pakistanis claims they have the “Islamic bomb” the ragtag they assembled from stolen technologies.

The only difference is that Pakistan’s terror infrastructure now has support of many failing players, state and non-state. Islamabad is a club of outdated medieval ideologies.

Wait for China to whitewash Pakistan’s crimes, once again, as it did earlier…

It is in this context that the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group’s two ‘Markazs’ (centres) – its Bahawalpur headquarters and Narowal in Pakistan’s Punjab – functioned as a breeding ground for suicide attackers. They also had links with Palestine destroyer Hamas and served as a facility for hoarding smuggled NATO arms from Afghanistan, the media reported on Thursday.

Both these centres, located on the opposite ends of Pakistan’s Punjab province, were among the nine targets hit by precision missiles launched by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the early hours of Wednesday, in a strong retaliation to the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, in which 26 Hindu-only tourists and a local guide were brutally massacred by Pak-sponsored terrorists. 

Reports said the Bahawalpur centre of JeM, spread over 15 acres, was run by de-facto chief Abdul Rauf Asgar and the area had residential houses of JeM founder Masood Azhar and other family members.

A crying Masood Azhar acknowledged after the IAF strikes codenamed ‘Operation Sindoor’ that 10 members of his family and four close associates were killed in India’s missile attack on the outfit’s headquarters in Bahawalpur–and that he wished he had himself died.

A statement attributed to Azhar said those killed in the attack on Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah in Bahawalpur included his elder sister and her husband, a nephew and his wife, another niece, and five children from his extended family.

The Bahawalpur centre is notorious for hoarding arms and ammunition left behind by the NATO forces in Afghanistan, the officials said.

They said Bahawalpur was often frequented by JeM commanders fighting in Afghanistan, and that Asgar purchased as well as smuggled consignments of weaponry, including M4 series rifles, through a network of criminals based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was earlier known as North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

Besides the M4 series, the arms and ammunition included sniper rifles, armour-piercing bullets, Night Vision Devices (NVD), and rifles fitted with NVD.

About the centre in Narowal, the officials said the Markaz was used for learning tactics from the Palestine Hamas group. The involvement of Hamas started in 2014 when one of the Jaish terrorists, Mohammed Adnan Ali, codenamed ‘Doctor,’ imparted paraglider training to operatives of another Pakistan-friendly terror group, Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF)’s activist Ramandeep Singh alias Goldy, in Thailand.

The training was given by Jagtar Singh Tara who was deported to India and his associates Jaswinder Singh Jassa and Mohammad Umar Gondal.

The tactics for use of tunnels for infiltration and paragliding were inspired by the modus operandi used by Hamas in the Middle East, the officials said, adding that there are multiple inputs about regular interactions of JeM terrorists with Hamas leaders.

In February 2025, senior Hamas functionaries addressed a rally on ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ in Rawalakot, PoK, that had top Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad cadres in attendance.

The rally was addressed by Hamas spokesperson Khalid Qaddoumi, which indicated their link with the jihadi campaign in Jammu and Kashmir to the Palestinian fight in Israel.

The Bahawalpur and Narowal facilities have produced terrorists responsible for multiple suicide attacks in India, including the 2016 strike at the Pathankot IAF base and the 2020 attack in Nagrota.

Among those indoctrinated for these “fidayeen” (suicide) attacks were close relatives of Masood Azhar, specifically his nephew Tallah Rasheed, as well as Usman, Umar, and Mohammed Ismail, also known as ‘Lambu’. After being indoctrinated at these facilities, the individuals were reportedly sent to Balakot for arms training.

 

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