NEW DELHI, Feb 26: The Balakot-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror camp destroyed by the Indian Air Force(IAF) was used for “battle inoculation” and its trainers were retired officers of the Pakistan army, Government sources said.
Located on the banks of Kunhar river in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, the camp was also used by another terror group Hizbul Mujahideen.
The camp also offered aquatic training to its inmates, the sources added.
The camp, located 20 kms from the Balakote town, was an important training centre for the JeM and other terror organisations and it had several structures to accommodate new recruits and facilities to train them, the sources said. Several “inspirational lectures” were delivered by JeM founder and terror mastermind Masood Azhar and other terrorist leaders on several occasions.
Masood Azhar’s relatives and cadres were trained at Balakote in advanced weapons and tactics and before the inception of JeM, the camp was also used by the Hizbul Mujahideen, the sources said.
In the Balakote camp, the terrorists 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 sources said.
The JeM specialises in fidayeen actions and gives immense importance to religious indoctrination and ideological brainwashing, they said. (PTI)
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