Jaish-e-Mohammad attacked BSF camp in Srinagar, admits Masood Azhar

China has rejected the move to treat the JeM chief as a global terrorist

NEW DELHI: Masood Azhar, the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist group, has claimed last month's attack on the BSF camp in Srinagar. He can be heard boasting about the attack in an audio clip exclusively accessed by Zee Media. The terror chief can also be heard acknowledging that his outfit trains terrorists in Pakistan for suicide missions.

The audio clip is reportedly a speech that Azhar gave at a mosque. It comes just days after China used its veto power at the United Nations to stave off efforts by a large group of countries to finalise an international ban on Azhar. China's excuse was that there isn't enough evidence against him.

The audio clip is around 105 minutes long. Masood Azhar can be heard saying, "When the world says we will end this jihad, our men attack the BSF camp in Srinagar."

He also took digs at leaders in the Pakistani establishment who turned on the JeM, singling out former Pakistan Army chief and president Pervez Musharraf, who had vowed to eradicate Jaish from his country.

"Today, Musharraf is nowhere in Pakistan. But Jaish-e-Mohammad continues to exist. Allah has saved us all," Masood Azhar can be heard saying. "When our ministers in the government go abroad, some leaders in the international community ask them to kill us, in return for aid. But, by the grace of allah, we are alive," he says.

His speech contains a demonstration of the typical tools used in the process of radicalising listeners. Azhar can be heard extolling the value of jihad and martyrdom as a key to success.

China had on Thursday blocked a resolution which aimed to bring in an international ban on Masood Azhar. The resolution would have placed Azhar on the 1267 sanctions list, which would subject him to an assets freeze and travel ban. This was the fourth time China had derailed the resolution, which is being pushed by a group of countries that includes India. China is the only member in the 15-nation UN Security Council to hold out on the resolution.