EFSAS ARTICLE - JeM

How has an armed group with proven links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban become a key player in the Indo-Pak conflict? And how has it managed to evade the sanctions imposed by State and international authorities for more than two decades? Tracing the origins of its creation to the present day, this article seeks to examine the functioning of the terrorist group, its main attacks, and its implications. [...] This attack was the first of its kind in the history of terrorism in the Kashmir valley and created a modus operandi that has continued to this day, ravaging the region, and creating a climate of terror, with the new aim of causing maximum casualties, whether in the ranks of armed forces or civilians. [...] The last sentence reveals the lack of power of the civilian government over the military and the opacity that surrounds it as well as the depth of the relationship maintained between the ISI and JeM. [...] The United Nations Security Council also reacted via the 1267 Sanctions Committee - formed in the aftermath of the Kenya and Tanzania bombings to implement sanctions on the Taliban and Al Qaida – by registering Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2001 on the Sanction List for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the. [...] While the Pakistani State and the Pakistani people need to draw appropriate lessons from the impact that the repeated mobilization of terrorist and extremist assets by the establishment has had on their country’s polity, society, economy and security, with the intriguing revival of the extremist Difa-e-Pakistan Council in April 2023, the message for the FATF and other international anti-terrorist.