Majidyar, Could Taliban take over Punjab? (2010), hlm. 3: "Pakistani jails have revolving doors, and even high-profile detainees like JeM leader Maulana Masood Azhar and LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed were soon free men. Banned organizations resurfaced under new names or as charities..." Majidyar, Ahmad (June 2010), Could the Taliban Take Over Pakistan's Punjab Province?(PDF), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, diakses tanggal 16 October 2016
Riedel, Deadly Embrace (2012): "The answer is JeM's friend and ally, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda." (p. 69) "Or as Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik has put it, "They — Lashkar-e-Janghvi, the Sipah-e-Sohaba Pakistan, and Jaish-e-Mohammad — are allies of the Taliban and al Qaeda" and do indeed pursue many of the same goals." (p. 100) Riedel, Bruce O. (2012), Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad, Brookings Institution Press, ISBN0-8157-2274-5
Cronin et al., Foreign Terrorist Organizations (2004), hlm. 40: "The JEM is a Pakistan-based, militant Islamic group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in March 2000." Cronin, Audrey Kurth; Aden, Huda; Frost, Adam; Jones, Benjamin (6 February 2004), "Foreign Terrorist Organizations"(PDF), CRS Report for Congress, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service: 40–43, diakses tanggal 2 December 2012
Bill Roggio (16 January 2016). "Pakistan again puts Jaish-e-Mohammed leader under 'protective custody'". The Long War Journal.: "In 2008, JEM recruitment posters in Pakistan contained a call from Azhar for volunteers to join the fight in Afghanistan against Western forces," according to the US Treasury’s 2010 designation of the group’s emir.