New Delhi (NVI): In yet another glaring proof of how terrorists operate openly in Pakistan, a video has surfaced, showing a training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) being inaugurated by Abdul Rauf Asghar, brother of the outfit’s chief Masood Azhar.
Visibly the opening of the camp is taking place amid chants of slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and frenzied firing from AK rifles by the JeM cadres.
Although the exact location of the camp was not clear, it is purported to be the same place in Balakot which was hit by Indian Air Force fighter planes during aerial strike on February 26, last year. The camp had been destroyed and unspecified number of terrorists had been killed in the strike.
Pakistan had claimed that there was no damage to the terror camp but allowed no independent person to the location for unbiased verification.
The video shows armed cadres at the campus ushering in Asghar, who is now the de facto head of JeM, ostensibly because of ill-health of Masood Azhar who has been proscribed by the UN Security Council.
India had carried out air strike at the JeM camp, which was a major training facility of the terror outfit, in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan, in retaliation to the terror attack on CRPF convoy in Pulwama on February 14. At least 40 CRPF personnel were killed in a gruesome manner when a vehicle laden with explosives was rammed by a suicide bomber into the convoy.
Indian investigators have found involvement of Azhar, Asghar and five others in the attack.
Three Pakistani terrorists Saifullah, Umar Farooq and Kamran had infiltrated into Kashmir to execute the attack. Saifullah and Farooq were killed in encounters with security forces after the Pulwama attack while Ismail is still on the run.
