A new audio recording, supposedly featuring Maulana Masood Azharthe elusive terrorist outfit boss Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has appeared on social media boasting that his organization now commands “thousands” of suicide bombers ready for immediate action. The clip has emerged at a time when Saifullah Kasuri, mastermind of the Pahalgam attack and deputy leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, was captured on video claiming that the Pakistan Army had invited him to lead its soldiers’ funeral prayers afterwards Operation Sindoor – conducted by India in May last year after the terror attack in J&K. Both clips were posted on Telegram and X by pro-ISI accounts.
The messages are seen as a desperate propaganda attempt to revitalize a group suffering from devastating losses suffered by Indian forces during the operation. Kasoori’s speech was delivered from a school where hundreds of children could be seen in the audience, while Azhar also appeared to address a public gathering, sources said. In another video, Kasuri also welcomed the growing diplomatic and military ties between Pakistan and Bangladesh. The latest footage shows a defiant Azhar claiming that the sheer number of his followers “would cause an uproar in the global media” if fully revealed. Azhar said new recruits were driven by an obsession with achieving “martyrdom.”Def Experts: Azhar’s statement is a sign of frustration after sindoor Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) Masood Azhar claims that these recruits are driven by a fanatical obsession with “martyrdom” and explicitly states that they do not seek material comforts such as cars, motorcycles or foreign visas. “They ask Allah for only one thing: martyrdom,” the UN-designated terrorist claimed, trying to project an image of high morale and spiritual conviction among his cadres. However, defense experts suspected that this was little more than a “hollow threat” and a sign of great frustration surrounding Operation Sindoor, a series of precision strikes by India in May 2025 that decimated JeM’s infrastructure and eliminated at least 10 of Azhar’s close relatives and top aides in Bahawalpur. “This audio recording appears to be a calculated attempt to save face after the group’s leadership was ‘torn to pieces’ as other JeM commanders recently admitted,” a source said. Interestingly, Azhar has not been seen in public since an explosion at his hideout in Bahawalpur in 2019, leading to persistent rumors about his health and whereabouts. While this latest audio recording lacks visual evidence of his life, it does suggest that the terror mastermind is still trying to operate from stealth deep in a safe haven in Pakistan. Sources said security agencies are now closely analyzing voice samples and metadata from the clip to determine its origin and assess the current threat level posed by the group’s surviving sleeper cells.
