Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) is a militant organization that functions mostly
in Jammu and Kashmir region. The outfit has been using
violence to affect a withdrawal of Indian security
forces from J&K. It is an organization that is manned
and controlled in Pakistan under the leadership of
Masood Azhar. Since its inception in January 2001, it
has carried out several attacks in the form of “suicide
attacks” on the Indian forces present in Jammu and
Kashmir. The organization received major chunk of its
funding from Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden prior to 2002,
and currently it is using charity to acquire funding. It
has been proscribed in Pakistan since 2002, however
despite the ban; it continues to function in different
parts of the country. While, JeM’s main target has been
Jammu and Kashmir, in last few years, elements inside
JeM have widened the group's targets to officials of the
Pakistani state and Western existence in Pakistan.