JeM Chief warns Pak, says 'an army which loves death has been prepared'
New Delhi: As reports emerged that Pakistan had detained Masood Azhar in connection with the Pathankot attack, a write-up by the JeM chief himself appeared online, where he warned the Sharif government against the raids it carried out on JeM’s offices in the country, according to a report in The Indian Express.
The article appeared on Jaish’s online mouthpiece Al Qalam under Masood’s pen name Saidi, and in the write-up he called Pakistan government’s crackdown as “very dangerous for this country”.
The JeM chief ridiculed Pakistan’s pledge to support India in the Pathankot probe and asserted that he did not care about his “arrest” or “killing”.
“With my killing, neither will my friends miss me nor will my enemies. An army which loves death has been prepared,” wrote Masood, hinting at serious consequences.
“Allah willing, this army won’t let (our) enemies celebrate for too long,” he continued, “it (his army) won’t let my absence be felt at all. Thanks to Allah, I don’t have any desire that will remain unfulfilled at my death. As for my family and my children, they are taken care of by Almighty Allah and he will take care of them tomorrow as well.”
Making a direct reference to the Modi goverment, Masood hit out at Pakistani government for its sudden renewed warmth towards India. “There is a lot of noise coming from India regarding us — arrest, kill, arrest, kill — and here our rulers are in anguish because, perhaps, we have disturbed their intimacy and friendship (because) they want that on the day of judgment, they should stand as friends of Modi and Vajpayee,” he wrote.
Read:
Pak detains JeM chief Masood Azhar, questions him on Pathankot attack
Five times when Pakistan dragged its feet, fuelling standoff with India
Masood continued his caustic criticism of the Nawaz Sharif government while praising his own outfit for only “wishing well” for Pakistan, he defended the Jaish and said: “Our thinking regarding Pakistan has always been based on wishing it well and peace, not to save our life and skin but for the interests of Muslim nation and in the interest of jihad. I am sorry that the rulers here (in Pakistan) have no respect for that. They have continued to be guided by those who are not our own — and they (rulers) continue to turn their own country into a heap of explosives and fire. Each one of them comes and puts their own country on fire and then they flee.”
“I have not harmed the government of Pakistan ever, there is not a single case registered against me in any police station across Pakistan. While I was lodged in Bahawalpur Central jail, the jail administration feared that my friends and companions may attack them. So I was shifted to Dera Gazi Khan,’’ Azhar wrote. “I kept on explaining to them that this was my own country…Allah helped and my own home was declared a sub jail and I was kept there.”
Read:
Pathankot attacks: China aid sought to get UN ban on JeM chief Masood Azhar
Masood Azhar, from a teacher to the dreaded face of Jaish-e-Mohammed
In the write up, he recalled the days he spent in a Jammu jail after he was arrested by the Indian govt on terrorism charges in 1995. He was released on 1999 in exchange of passengers of the hijacked IC-814 aircraft.
Masood Azhar founded Jaish-e-Mohammad after his release and has been active ever since, gaining worldwide notoriety. The group was involved in the 2001 Parliament attack and the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in November 2008.
