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Jaish-e-Mohammed  

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  • Jaish-e-Mohammed (Mohammed's Army; JEM) is a militant Islamist group based in Pakistan. JEM was founded in the late 1990s by Maulana Masood Azhar, a former leader of the ultra-fundamentalist Islamist group Harakat ul-Mujahidin. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Jaish-E-Mohammed]

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