In a purported audio message, a senior Jaish-e-Mohammad leader, identified as Maulana Ummar, the brother of Jaish chief Masood Azhar, says that Indian fighter jets hit "a school where students were being trained to understand jihad" in the Balakot airstrike.
India has claimed that the February 26 cross-LoC airstrike demolished the largest Jaish-e-Mohammad training camp in Balakot.