Pakistan terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed launches online ‘Jihadi Course’ for women, participant to pay 500 PKR Masood Azhar’s family to lead

Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has started an online course called Tufat al-Muminat to recruit women and collect funds for its new women’s wing, Jamat ul-Muminat, according to media reports. The course is designed to spread extremist ideas and bring women into JeM’s female unit through religious and jihad-focused teachings. The 40-minute online classes will begin on November 8 and will be conducted by JeM chief Masood Azhar’s sisters, Sadiya Azhar and Samaira Azhar. Each participant is being asked to pay 500 Pakistani rupees as a “donation.”

Officials said that women related to JeM leaders, including Masood Azhar’s family members, will teach lessons about women’s “duties” in the context of jihad and Islam.

This move comes a few weeks after Masood Azhar, who is listed as a global terrorist by the UN, announced the creation of the women’s wing Jamat ul-Muminat on October 8 at Markaz Usman-o-Ali in Bahawalpur. Later, on October 19, the group organised another event in Rawalkot, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, called Dukhtaran-e-Islam, to encourage more women to join the new unit.

According to reports, JeM is using the internet because Pakistan’s strict social rules often limit how freely women can move. Online classes let the group reach women where they are. They want to build a women’s force similar to groups like ISIS, Hamas and the LTTE. Officials fear this could include training for fedayeen or suicide missions.

Masood Azhar has named his younger sister, Sadiya Azhar, to lead the new unit. Her husband, JeM commander Yusuf Azhar, was killed in India(BHARAT)’s Operation Sindoor. Other leaders named include his sister Safia and Afreera Farooq, the widow of Pulwama attack conspirator Umar Farooq.

People who watch JeM say the group is focusing on the wives of commanders and on poor women who study at its centres in Bahawalpur, Karachi, Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Haripur and Mansehra.

A senior counter-terror official said that after Operation Sindoor and the Pahalgam attack, JeM concluded women could help them avoid security checks and handle logistics or propaganda. This online course is being used as part of that plan.