JeM chief spews venom against Modi, tries inciting Indian Muslims

In December 2016, the National Investigation Agency filed a charge-sheet against the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) Chief Masood Azhar for orchestrating the Pathankot Airbase Terror Attack in January 2016.

The charge-sheet in the case provided evidence on the attack at the Indian Air Force base at Pathankot.

It also linked JeM with blasts in Samba, Tangdhar, Kathua, and Rajbagh in Jammu & Kashmir in 2015.

On July 20, in possibly a sign of Trump administration's toughening stance against terrorism, the US listed Pakistan as one of the countries providing safe havens to terrorists in its annual "Country Report on Terrorism."

It said terrorist groups including Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, continued to raise funds, train and operate from Pakistan in 2016 and further discussed India's strong domestic crackdown on terror.

Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar has attempted to incite Indian Muslims in a column published in the outfit's journal Al-Qalam.

He also spewed hatred against PM Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The JeM is responsible for terrorist attacks on military and civilian in Pathankot, Nagrota, Gurdaspur, Akhnoor and others.

Masood mentioned the incidents of lynching of Muslims by cow protection vigilantes.

"The situation in India is deteriorating, unbearable and loathsome," he wrote. He cited the lynching of a Muslim youth in Haryana in a Mathura-bound train.

"A leader issued the statement that they would shed blood of thousands of men if they were to protect the cow."