Masood Azhar’s sisters, Sadiya and Samaira Azhar, are leading the ‘Tufat al-Muminat’ online course, utilizing digital platforms to circumvent Pakistan’s conservative social restrictions.
October 22, 2025: The Pakistan-based terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), designated a terrorist entity by the United Nations, has taken its new women’s unit, Jamat ul-Muminat, online with a recruitment and indoctrination course.
The online training initiative, named ‘Tufat al-Muminat’ (Gift of the Believing Women), is scheduled to begin its recruitment drive on November 8. This move is seen as a tactical shift by the terror group to circumvent rigid social norms in Pakistan that restrict women’s movements, allowing for wider recruitment and fundraising.
Azhar’s Family to Lead ‘Duty of Jihad’ Classes
The online course will feature female family members of JeM’s top brass, including relatives of founder Masood Azhar and his commanders, who will instruct participants on their ‘duties’ with reference to jihad and Islam.
Key among the ‘lecturers’ are Azhar’s two sisters, Sadiya Azhar and Samaira Azhar. Sources indicate that Sadiya Azhar, the younger sister, has been given charge of the new Jamat unit. Her classes, lasting 40 minutes per day, are intended to ‘encourage’ women to formally join the Jamat ul-Muminat.
The recruitment push follows the death of Sadiya Azhar’s husband, Yusuf Azhar, who was among several Masood Azhar family members and commanders killed in an Indian military response, Operation Sindoor, which targeted the Jaish headquarters in Bahawalpur in May, following the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April.
The leadership roster also includes Afreer Farooq, the wife of Umar Farooq, one of the Pahalgam attackers, further cementing the unit’s ties to the group’s terror operations.
Fees and Fundraising Under Scrutiny
Simultaneously, Masood Azhar is reportedly escalating his donation drive. The terror group is collecting 500 PKR (approx. 156 INR) from every woman enrolling in the ‘Tufat al-Muminat’ course, requiring them to fill an online information form.
Sources suggest that this systematic fee collection, coming shortly after Azhar’s public address at the Markaz Usman O Ali in Bahawalpur last month, exposes Pakistan’s hypocrisy in claiming to have fully implemented Financial Action Task Force (FATF) regulations meant to curb terror financing.
Masood Azhar had announced the formation of the women’s unit on October 8. An event titled ‘Dukhtaran-e-Islam’ was subsequently held in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on October 19 to initiate the mobilisation of women into the group.