A number of instances described as “useless” and “bedridden” within the media, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar is shifting freely in Pakistan, even attending wedding ceremony ceremonies, in response to forensic evaluation of JeM-linked media clips by India Right this moment’s OSINT workforce.
The current terror assaults in Jammu and Kashmir (J&Okay) have as soon as once more uncovered the involvement of JeM-linked terror operatives working underneath the guise of native militant teams. Twelve safety personnel, together with a military main, and ten civilians have been killed and a minimum of 55 folks injured in a collection of terror incidents which have resumed since January 1.
Intelligence assessments of a few of these main assaults have pointed in the direction of Pakistan-based terrorist teams akin to JeM.
Designated as a worldwide terrorist by the United Nations (UN) and several other different nations, Azhar just lately attended a marriage ceremony in Bahawalpur and delivered a speech.
On June 27, the pinnacle of the organisation, which is prohibited underneath Pakistani regulation, attended a marriage ceremony and commenced his speech with tributes to “those that sacrificed their lives within the jihad of Kashmir and Palestine.” Azhar had not been seen at a public gathering since April 2019, after escaping an explosion at his secure home in Peshawar.
THE CHIEF OF THE JEME APPROVES SUICIDE MISSIONS
A clip of Azhar’s speech on the assembly was uploaded on social media platforms by JeM-linked channels. Defending the significance of marriage even for individuals who need to be Fidayeen, Azhar might be heard saying, “Nikaah was once really easy… on one facet there was once struggle and on the opposite facet there was Nikaah. Males used to go to struggle straight from Ghusl (Arabic time period for ritual purification of your complete physique after sexual activity) and attain martyrdom. Right this moment, comrades write to me that they’ve pledged to change into Fidayee (to be sacrificed) however relations hold asking for the marriage, what ought to they do? If it was the previous period of Islam and the Quran, I may have advised them to get married and after a day or two do the Fidayee work… however it’s not attainable in at present’s period. Right this moment they can’t do each… we have now disadvantaged ourselves of those blessings by abandoning the previous customs.”
FORENSIC INVESTIGATION
Evaluation of the clip’s metadata by India Right this moment confirmed that it was initially recorded on June 27 at 8:07 p.m. in a time zone that matches Pakistan. It was edited utilizing Adobe Audition, an expert audio workstation, after which uploaded on-line on the morning of June 29, once more from the identical time zone.
The software program model used within the version was launched in Might 2022 and was put in on a Home windows pc.
To confirm Azhar’s voice pattern within the current clip, India Right this moment used Pyannote, an open-source Python-based speaker recording device that segments audio information based mostly on their properties and limits.
The current clip was in comparison with a beforehand verified audio pattern belonging to Azhar. Based mostly on the excessive cosine similarity (a measure utilized in pure language processing (NLP) and machine studying to find out similarities between two vectors), the device confirmed a excessive diploma of similarity between the 2 samples.
Intelligence sources advised India Right this moment that Pakistan-trained Azhar terror operatives have assumed the superficial identification of the newly shaped Kashmiri militant group Kashmir Tigers to present an indigenous color to the current assaults and save Pakistan from additional world sanctions.
In early October 2022, Pakistan was faraway from the Monetary Motion Job Drive (FATF) gray listing on account of “important enhancements within the total framework for combating cash laundering and terrorist financing.” Earlier this week, Pakistan and the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) reached an settlement for a 37-month $7 billion mortgage program to rescue Pakistan from a protracted financial disaster.
(With contributions from Jainam Shah)
