The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) headquarters in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, has been marked as "permanently closed" on Google Maps after India's strike under Operation Sindoor. This follows the coordinated strikes by the Indian armed forces on May 7, 2025, which targeted multiple terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Bahawalpur camp, known as Markaz Subhan Allah, served as a crucial stronghold for JeM, functioning as a center for recruitment, fundraising, and indoctrination.
India's strikes were a response to the terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22, 2025, which resulted in the deaths of 26 civilians. Following the attack, Indian intelligence identified nine terror sites, including the JeM headquarters in Bahawalpur, as key infrastructure used for terrorist activities.
The operation, executed with precision, involved coordinated action by the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force. The strike on Bahawalpur was described as the most powerful of Operation Sindoor, utilizing India's most potent weaponry. The operation resulted in significant casualties, including ten members of JeM chief Masood Azhar's family, among them Abdul Rauf Azhar, a key figure in numerous attacks against India. Masood Azhar himself acknowledged the devastating blow, stating that ten members of his family had been killed.
Satellite imagery confirmed the extensive damage to the Markaz Subhan Allah complex. The images revealed a gaping hole in the mosque's dome, collapsed buildings, and debris scattered across the area. Video evidence presented by the Indian armed forces showed the terror headquarters reduced to rubble.
The Bahawalpur headquarters held strategic and symbolic significance as the ideological and operational epicenter of JeM. The Markaz Subhan Allah, also referred to as Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah, had served as JeM's primary headquarters since 2015. The complex housed the residences of JeM founder Maulana Masood Azhar, his brother Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar, and other close family members. JeM conducted regular arms training, physical combat exercises, and indoctrination targeting young recruits at Bahawalpur.
The targeting of the Bahawalpur base was a deliberate move to dismantle the JeM leadership and send a direct message to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the agency that allegedly founded and sustained Jaish for decades.
Jaish-e-Mohammed is a Pakistan-based Deobandi jihadist Islamist militant group active in Kashmir. The group's primary motive is to separate Jammu and Kashmir from India and integrate it into Pakistan. Since its inception in 2000, the group has carried out several terrorist attacks on civilian, economic, and military targets in India, including the 2001 Indian Parliament attack, the 2016 Pathankot airbase attack, and the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing.
Following the strike, strict security measures were enforced in the area. Masood Azhar, in a statement, said that 10 people and four close associates of his family have been killed in the Indian attack on the Markaz Subhan Allah.
The action has been described as a shift from tactical response to strategic deterrence, directly targeting the epicenter of JeM's network. The destruction of the Bahawalpur headquarters and its subsequent labeling as "permanently closed" on Google Maps symbolizes the disruption of JeM's activities and infrastructure in the region.
