Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has again extended support to the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) after it suffered massive losses during Operation Sindoor in Muridke. The Pakistani intelligence agency has now funded the LeT, which has formed a covert alliance with the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) in Balochistan.
As per reports, the alliance aims to target Baloch people and expand its operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
A video circulating on social media shows LeT commander Rana Muhammad Ishfaq and ISKP’s Shafiq Mengal participating in training at an undisclosed location in Balochistan.
The alliance between the two terror groups has raised serious security concerns for India, especially in parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources in intelligence agencies said that the ISI’s efforts are aimed at gaining control over the Baloch population, as well as the border areas adjacent to Afghanistan, and launching fresh attempts to destabilise Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile, a local journalist, Tufail Ahmed Rind, was brutally shot dead by armed assailants in Mirpur Mathelo on Wednesday morning while he was taking his children to school, as reported by ARY News.
According to ARY News, unidentified gunmen ambushed Rind’s vehicle and opened fire, killing him instantly. Fortunately, his children, who were accompanying him, remained unharmed during the assault.
Police shifted the journalist’s body to Mirpur Mathelo Hospital for post-mortem examination. Soon after the incident, a large number of journalists from Ghotki gathered at the scene, strongly condemning the killing and demanding swift justice.
They urged the provincial authorities to take serious action against those responsible and to ensure protection for media workers in high-risk regions. The slain journalist had allegedly been accused in a prior murder case; the authorities maintained that investigations are ongoing and no arrests have yet been made.
This tragic event adds to a disturbing pattern of violence targeting journalists in northern Sindh. Two other reporters were murdered in Ghotki last year. In May, journalist Nasrullah Gadani was shot dead by unidentified attackers near Mirpur Mathelo, while Bachal Ghuniyo was killed in another armed assault in the Rawanti area of Ghotki. Both incidents remain unresolved.
