Overview
- Video from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir shows Abu Musa Kashmiri urging the killing of Hindus and asserting he told Pakistan’s leadership that only ‘jihad’ can resolve Kashmir.
- Indian agencies are verifying the event’s location in Bahira village, Hajira tehsil, and treating the speech as potential operational signalling tied to recruitment.
- Hafiz Abdul Rauf acknowledged that India’s May 2025 Operation Sindoor left the Markaz-e-Taiba site in Muridke ‘finished’ and ‘collapsed’ while presiding over a new trainees’ ceremony.
- Intelligence reports say Pakistan’s ISI and army are grooming successor leaders, reviving training hubs, and convening LeT–JeM coordination meetings in Bahawalpur involving figures like Talha Saeed.
- Security assessments warn of an ISI-directed plan embedding a 12-member LeT fidayeen squad within ISKP for strikes in Jammu and Kashmir, with cells assessed as active in Budgam, Kishtwar and Srinagar.