India, July 5 -- The first communication issued after the strikes opens with an unusually personal disclosure by Azhar. He writes that fourteen people connected to him had been killed, including ten members of his family and four close associates.

A series of internal communications issued by Jaish-eMohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar in the days following India's Operation Sindoor offers the most detailed account yet of how the Pakistan-based terror outfit internally processed the Indian strikes, documenting Azhar's deeply personal account of losing close family members, his attempts to transform those losses into an ideological narrative, his appeal for Pakistan to retaliate militarily and his subsequent endorsement of Islamabad's milita...