The rebuilding of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Bahawalpur headquarters is not just a South Asian security story. It is a warning about how jihadist infrastructure survives when states learn to manage international outrage rather than dismantle the machinery of terror.

According to recent satellite imagery reported by India Today, reconstruction is under way at the Jamia Subhan Allah compound in Bahawalpur, the long-associated headquarters of Masood Azhar’s Jaish-e-Mohammed. Heavy machinery, repair work and restored domes are reportedly visible at a site India struck during Operation Sindoor in May 2025. In other words, a UN-designated terrorist organisation’s symbolic and operational nerve centre appears not to have disappeared. It has been damaged, mourned, fundraised for and rebuilt.

That sequence should sound grimly familiar to Israelis. Terror organisations do not live only in tunnels, camps or compounds. They live in the political spaces that tolerate them, in the religious language that sanctifies them, in the financial networks that revive them and in the state structures that deny responsibility while allowing them to function. Bahawalpur is not Gaza, and Jaish-e-Mohammed is not Hamas. But the logic of regeneration is not unfamiliar. A headquarters is struck. The dead are turned into martyrs. The organisation’s losses become propaganda. The next generation is told that rebuilding is resistance.

This is why the declarations made by Jaish’s own leaders matter. After Operation........

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