All that you wanted to know about the Balakot terror camp

February 26, 2019 17:15

The Balakot-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terror camp destroyed by the Indian Air Force Tuesday was used for "battle inoculation" and its trainers were retired officers of the Pakistan Army, government sources said.

Location: On the banks of Kunhar river in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Purpose: The camp was used by the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen.

Numbers: The sources said at least 325 terrorists and 25 to 27 trainers were at the camp, the biggest operated by the JeM.

Facilities: The camp offered aquatic training to its inmates, accommodation for new recruits and facilities to train them. The facility at Balakot, located in a thick forest on a hilltop far from civilian presence.

Faculty: Headed by Maulana Yousuf Azhar, alias Ustad Ghouri, the brother-in-law of JeM chief Masood Azhar.The statement did not say if Yousuf Azhar was among those killed. Several "inspirational lectures" were delivered by JeM founder and terror mastermind Masood Azhar and other terrorist leaders on several occasions.

Training: Terrorists in the Balakot camp were imparted the advanced 'Daura-e-Khaas' training in weapons, explosives and field tactics, attack on convoys of security forces, planting and making of IEDs, suicide bombing, rigging vehicles for suicide attacks and survival tactics in high altitudes and extreme-stress situations.

The JeM is proscribed by the UN and has been responsible of a series of terrorist attacks, including on the Indian Parliament in December 2001 and the Pathankot airbase in January 2016.

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