July 7, 2026: In late 2025, Pakistani Islamic terrorist group JeM/Jaish-e-Mohammed announced the formation of a women’s wing called JuM/Jamaat-ul-Muminat, translated as the Organization of Female Believers. The announcement was made in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. In mid-October, JeM organized a recruiting effort in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to persuade women to move from their usual terrorist-supporting efforts to front-line combat activities that include the likelihood of injury or death.

JeM was founded in 2000 in Pakistan for the purpose of carrying out Islamic terrorist attacks against Indian targets. JeM also wants to make the disputed districts of Jammu and Kashmir part of Pakistan, an effort that has been underway for 80 years. JeM seeks to carry out attacks inside India and has managed to do that a few times. In addition to being condemned by nations worldwide, JeM makes regular use of social media and information warfare to recruit naïve people to become Islamic terrorists with a death wish.

JuM is an attempt to replace growing losses of male JeM members with radicalized women. This is nothing new, as Arab Islamic terrorist groups have previously recruited women and young girls to be suicide bombers. The women were reluctant to do this, and the young girls didn’t understand. In both cases, the women and girls were equipped with a suicide bomb vest and then instructed to go to a particular location. They would be followed by handlers who had remote control devices to detonate the explosive vests. It is not known if JuM is going to adopt these tactics, and that is why new JuM recruits undergo over a month of training and indoctrination. It will be known how this worked out if Pakistani women are found to be exploding near Indian targets.