After organising religious gatherings, rallies, and terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK), terrorist groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba have now turned their focus to schools. According to a report by jagran.com, these organisations are recruiting students to build a new generation of terrorists.

Posters and advertisements have appeared in major Pakistani cities and PoK regions, encouraging parents to enroll children aged 7 to 13 in schools run by the groups, offering education, free meals, and a monthly allowance.

Apart from this, these organisations are offering war training grounded in Islamic principles. Members of these terrorist organisations are visiting government and private schools in PoK to deliver speeches. Terrorist-themed costume competitions and plays are being staged glorifying slain terrorists in Kashmir and propagating fabricated stories of Muslim oppression.

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Sources cited by jagran.com revealed that terrorist organisations began a conspiracy to cultivate a terrorist mindset in schools in September last year and Jaish-e-Mohammed is more active in this effort than other terrorist organisations. Lashkar-e-Taiba's activities are limited to schools run by its affiliates. Jaish-e-Mohammed is also expanding its influence in government, non-government, and other schools.

Jihadi programs are being run outside schools for students. These organisations primarily target economically disadvantaged families. Many parents in PoK have withdrawn their children from their current schools and sent them to these terrorist schools in Bahawalpur, Lahore, Muridke, and Karachi.

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Sources said that the Pakistani government and military have stepped up the activities of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba in PoK, responding to growing local disillusionment with the Kashmir jihad.

Recruitment for these groups in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir had been steadily declining, with residents increasingly speaking out against them and demanding the closure of their training camps.