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Operation Sindoor has significantly weakened Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, destroying key infrastructure and eliminating several leaders, intelligence officials said. Struggling to recover, JeM has launched a large-scale online propaganda campaign using radical content and doctored videos to recruit youth in India and Pakistan, retain cadres and rebuild its terror network.

New Delhi: As India’s Operation Sindoor continues to cast a long shadow over Pakistan-based terror outfits, the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), weakened by heavy losses and struggling to regain operational strength, has launched an extensive digital propaganda campaign in a bid to stay relevant and rebuild its support base, intelligence officials have said.

According to officials, Operation Sindoor dealt a severe blow to the JeM, including the destruction of its headquarters at Bahawalpur and the loss of several cadres and senior functionaries. While the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba has shown signs of gradual revival through renewed infiltration attempts and restructuring of its command network, JeM has failed to recover at a similar pace.

An Intelligence Bureau official said that intercepts suggest that the Jaish-e-Mohammed has been attempting to run a major digital propaganda campaign. The campaign has two objectives -- to radicalise a large number of youth both in India and Pakistan, and to remain relevant so that the cadres do not move away, the official said.

The official added that when it comes to terror-related operations in India, the Jaish-e-Mohammed has been the most brutal after the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Currently, the outfit is unable to operate with the kind of ease it had managed to all these years. Even operations in Jammu and Kashmir are down owing to tight security, both within the Union Territory and the India-Pakistan border.