“All are alive and all is well,” wrote Masood Azhar, chief of the terror-outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, in the latest edition of JeM’s weekly paper Al-Qalam under his pen name Saadi in reference to his health and Balakot Air Strikes.

Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad.

Masood Azhar, the head of the terrorist group Jaish, said in a purported column false news was being spread about the losses incurred by the JeM, his health and how all these news are untrue. “Nothing like that. All are alive and all is well,” he wrote in his column.

In his most recent column written, under his pen name Saadi, in the latest edition of JeM’s weekly paper Al-Qalam, Azhar challenged Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to a shooting or archery competition in a bid to prove how medically fit he is.

Disha News cannot independently establish that Azhar is indeed the author of the piece but Al-Qalam is widely known as JeM’s mouthpiece and Saadi is a well-known pseudonym of Azhar’s.

The Jaish’s weekly paper allegedly wrote by Azhar mentioned in the piece that the fire started by Kashmiris like Adil Ahmad Dar, who was the suicide bomber behind the Pulwama attack that killed 40 Indian troopers, was not going to be extinguished any time soon.

Azhar also referred to terror activities in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir as a freedom movement and claimed it would spread across the region and out of the valley as time progressed because this is how such movements evolve.

Azhar also mentioned that the situation in the region is critical and drew attention to what was happening in Afghanistan.

On his own health, Azhar said that this was a topic on which he was usually reluctant to talk, but that given the propaganda against him, he was forced to write about his personal situation. He claimed he was fit and fine.

“I am fully well. My kidney and liver are perfectly fine.” He said that for 17 years he had never been to a hospital, and added that he had not consulted a doctor for several years.

He also said a Quran inspired diet have freed him from the clutches of ailments such as hypertension and diabetes. “There is nothing to worry about,” the JeM chief said, adding that in his spare moments he practised archery. “Unlike Narendra Modi, I am fully fit. I challenge him to a game or archery or a shooting competition to prove I am more fit than he is.”

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