The banned jihadi organisation Jaish-e-Muhammad is fast reorganising itself under its new commander Mufti Abdul Rauf, younger brother of Maulana Masood Azhar. Sources told Daily Times that the JM had established a transit camp in Islamabad for its activists coming from southern Punjab and travelling to Kohat where another camp had been established. “Mufti Abdul Rauf is spearheading the reorganisation of JM,” the sources said. Rauf appeared on the scene after Maulana Azhar went underground following two suicide attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf.
The president banned the organisation in January 2002. “Mufti Rauf is receiving directions from Muft Azhar,” the sources claimed. The camp in Islamabad is supposed to serve as the base for the organisation for its propaganda campaign and distribution of pamphlets in tribal areas.