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, JeM organized another event titled “Dukhtaran-e-Islam” (Daughters of Islam) to attract females into the group. It may be mentioned here that “Dukhtaran-e-Islam” emerged in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the late 1980s. Since then, many more training sessions have taken place in Rawalpindi on October 26; in Lahore on October 27; in Karachi on November 7 and in Sindh on November 9.

Since August 15, 2025, female wing of JeM is continuing online classes on jihad and other issues related to the agenda of the terrorist group. One of those online classes – “Alfiya Al-Jihad Fi Sabil Allah” (One Thousand Units of Jihad in the Path of Allah) is launched and run by Sadia Azhar, sister of JeM kingpin Masood Azhar. The goal of another online jihadist course titled “Tuhfat-ul-Mominaat” (Gift to Believing Women) which was launched on November 8, 2025 is aimed at recruitment, indoctrination and fundraising. Participants of this course are required to donate Pakistani Rupees 500 for enrolment. According to Masood Azhar, since launch this female wing has recruited over five thousand members.

Special saboteur unit of JeM

Alongside formation of “Jamaat-ul-Mominaat”, Jaish-e-Mohammed with direct coordination of Pakistani ISI has launched a special saboteur unit that is recruiting young females with the target of deploying them into various nightclubs, casinos, bars and pubs operated by Indian or Hindu owners in a number of countries, including Maldives, Bali (Indonesia), Thailand, Philippines, Dubai, EU nations, Britain and the United States with the target of executing suicide attacks. In addition to a limited number of recruits of Pakistani origin, most of the female members of this special unit are being recruited from foreign nations such as Indonesia, Philippines and Uzbekistan. Pakistani ISI is using especially foreign nationals in unit so that their actual identities remain secret.

In October 2025, Masood Azhar released a 21-minute audio message from JeM’s Bahawalpur headquarters, outlining a detailed plan for training, indoctrinating, and deploying women under the new unit. In the message, Azhar explains how the members of the female unit are recruited, trained, and integrated into his long-term “global jihad” mission, mirroring the structure of JeM’s long-running male training program.

In his speech, Azhar promised that any woman who joins the group “will go straight to paradise from her grave after death”.

On January 12, 2026, Masood Azhar in another audio message claimed that suicide attackers of JeM are waiting in numbers so large that the world would be shocked if revealed.

Jaish-e-Muhammad was founded by Pakistani national Masood Azhar in early 2000 and has since been designated as a terrorist organization by the UN, India, the US, the UK, Russia, Canada, the UAE, and Australia. According to the US National Counterterrorism Center, JeM has openly declared war against the United States. A report by the Australian Parliament says, “JeM may be facilitating the activities of international jihadists intending to conduct terrorist operations outside Kashmir or greater India, including the United Kingdom and US”. In 2019, Masood Azhar was added by the United Nations to its “ISIS and Al Qaeda Sanctions List” for “being associated with Al Qaeda”.

Some of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s notable attacks outside Pakistan-occupied Kashmir include the 2001 assault on Indian parliament building; the gruesome slaughter of US journalist Daniel Pearl; and two 2003 assassination attempts against Pakistani President Gen Parvez Musharraf.

Meanwhile, according to open-source intelligence (OSINT), Jaish-e-Muhammad and other Islamic terrorist groups in Pakistan have adopted new financial tools through modernization. Banks – once central to terror financing – are increasingly bypassed in favor of digital wallets, mobile payment systems, cryptocurrency, and micro-donation networks.

One of the most disturbing aspects of JeM’s new strategy is the exploitation of genuine humanitarian crises. Under the guise of Gaza relief, JeM-linked operatives have launched donation campaigns across Pakistan and the Gulf region. Masood Azhar’s son, operating under pseudonyms, allegedly coordinates these efforts, soliciting funds through emotional messaging and curated social media content.

For policymakers in Washington and allied capitals, the message is unambiguous. Any strategic engagement with Pakistan that ignores the persistent role of ISI in jihadist enablement risks legitimizing a system that produces adaptive, export-ready terrorism.

The weaponization of women within jihadist movements is not a sign of progress – it is an indicator of ideological decay and strategic calculation. Ignoring this evolution would be a grave error.

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