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Pakistan’s jihadist evolution: Jaish-e-Mohammed’s female brigade and the future of global terror

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20.02.2026

While US President Donald Trump has invited Pakistan to join “Board of Peace”, with the propagated target of bringing stability in Gaza, despite the fact that since its founding in 1947, it has become the home to a large number of Islamic terrorist organizations, including Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and others. According to media reports, recently Jaish-e-Mohammed, which stands for “Army of Mohammed” in English has launched its first-ever female wing under the direct patronization of Pakistani spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), with spine-chilling missions. It may be mentioned here that JeM is also connected to the United Jihad Council, which too is funded and sponsored by ISI.

According to counterterrorism experts, the launch of the female wing of Jaish-e-Mohammed is aimed at expanding its areas of terror through recruitment of female wings, which may pose serious security threats not only to South Asian nations – such threats may expand far-beyond into countries in the Middle East, Europe and even – the United States.

The female wing of JeM is “Jamaat-ul-Mominaat” (Congregation of the Believing Fames) was launched on October 9, 2025, and hosted by its training facility, ‘Markaz Usman-o-Ali’ (Center of Usman and Ali) in Bahawalpur, a city in the southeast of Pakistan’s Punjab Province. Since then, Jamaat-ul-Mominaat has held meetings, launched in-person and online radicalization events, recruitment fairs, and indoctrination courses for girls and women that include specialized training for combat and suicide missions.

Meanwhile, on October 19, 2025,........

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