Pulwama Attacker’s Wife Joined JeM Women’s Wing Linked to Delhi Blast

• Afira Bibi joins JeM’s women’s wing “Jamaat-ul-Mominat” weeks before Delhi blast.
• Works with Masood Azhar’s sister Sadia to recruit and radicalise women.
• Intelligence links the group to the Delhi Red Fort explosion.
• JeM using “religious education” as front for fund collection and indoctrination.

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 12th Nov: Weeks before the Delhi blast near Red Fort, the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) added a new member to its ranks — Afira Bibi, wife of Pulwama attack mastermind Umar Farooq, who was killed in an encounter in 2019. Bibi has now emerged as a key face of JeM’s women’s wing “Jamaat-ul-Mominat,” raising concerns about the terror outfit’s renewed strategy to use women for radical operations.

According to intelligence inputs, Afira Bibi has joined the Jamaat’s Shura (advisory council) alongside Sadia Azhar, sister of UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar and widow of Yusuf Azhar, the Kandahar hijacking plotter killed in Operation Sindoor. The women’s wing, first announced by Azhar on October 8, aims to radicalise, fund, and recruit women under the guise of religious education and social empowerment.

On October 19, a meeting titled ‘Dukhtaran-e-Islam’ was held in Rawalkot, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, to formally induct women into JeM’s new structure. Intelligence sources reveal that both Sadia and Bibi oversee operations and online propaganda, modelled on radical groups like ISIS, Hamas, and LTTE.

Exclusive documents accessed by NDTV show the launch of an online training course named ‘Tufat al-Mominat’, through which JeM collected PKR 500 from each woman recruit. The course, taught by Azhar’s sisters Sadia and Samaira, sought to “educate” women about their duties “under jihad.”

Investigators probing the Delhi blast, which killed nine people and injured over 20, have now linked the Jamaat-ul-Mominat to Dr Shaheen Saeed, a Lucknow-based recruit allegedly setting up the group’s Indian unit. Saeed was arrested after arms and ammunition were found in her car, hours before the Hyundai i20 explosion near the Red Fort Metro Station.

Officials believe JeM’s women’s brigade is part of a larger strategy to expand terror operations through female-led fronts, combining ideological indoctrination, recruitment, and covert funding. Intelligence agencies have launched a multi-agency probe into the group’s activities and potential local networks in India.