ISLAMABAD: A classified intelligence document has revealed an alleged coordinated network involving India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Afghan Taliban’s intelligence apparatus, and terrorist organisations operating against Pakistan, with more than USD7.8 million reportedly provided by Indian intelligence to facilitate terrorist activities in Balochistan.
According to a report based on a classified document, the alleged network was established in 2025 and involved RAW, Afghanistan’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI), senior Taliban leadership, the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
The document reportedly details an organised arrangement for financing, training, sheltering and facilitating terrorist organisations responsible for attacks inside Pakistan, particularly in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to the intelligence findings, the Taliban’s intelligence agency, acting on directions attributed to supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, facilitated coordination between the BLA, TTP and other terrorist organisations, with RAW allegedly assisting in arranging meetings and securing external financing.
The document identifies a meeting held on May 26, 2026, involving Kandahar Governor Mullah Shirin and representatives of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and the TTP to discuss support for BLA operations.
Three subsequent meetings were reportedly held in July 2026. During the first meeting, the GDI allegedly assured the BLA of support for terrorist activities inside Pakistan.
The second meeting, reportedly held at a TTP compound in Kandahar, involved the transfer of 3.5 million Afghanis from the BLA to Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.
A third meeting between RAW and GDI representatives, allegedly held outside Afghanistan, resulted in an agreement to finance coordinated BLA–TTP attacks in Balochistan.
The Intelligence document claims that RAW contributed more than USD7.8 million to support the alleged coordinated terrorist operations.
The report further revealed that an emergency meeting was allegedly convened in Kandahar on August 26, 2026, amid mounting pressure from Pakistani security forces on terrorist organisations.
According to the intelligence findings, the meeting brought together senior figures from the BLA, TTP and Al-Qaeda-linked networks, including Bashir Zeb, Khalil Baloch, Sifatullah Mengal, Anwar Nizami and Majeed Baloch.
Representatives of the TTP and affiliated networks, including Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Mullah Mirajuddin, were also reportedly present.
The document alleges that Taliban officials assured the BLA that additional manpower, weapons and logistical assistance would be provided through the TTP and AQIS to support terrorist activities in Balochistan.
It also refers to a directive from a Taliban administrative body ordering the release of assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and ammunition to an organisation identified as a front for the BLA.
The intelligence report further alleges that TTP and AQIS operatives carried out certain attacks in Balochistan while the BLA publicly claimed responsibility, purportedly to conceal the involvement of internationally sanctioned terrorist organisations.
The September 4 attack in Ziarat was cited in the document as an example of this alleged arrangement.
The intelligence findings have emerged against the backdrop of intensified terrorist violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
On September 18, terrorists attacked Kohat’s old Police Lines during Friday prayers, triggering a prolonged security operation.
The attack claimed 23 lives, including 17 police personnel and six civilians. Eight terrorists were killed during the subsequent clearance operation.
In another incident on September 20, six personnel, including Captain Abuzar Farooq and Lieutenant Sheraz Babar, embraced martyrdom during an exchange of fire with terrorists in Hangu district.
According to ISPR, eight terrorists were killed during the engagement, while security forces launched a sanitisation operation to eliminate any remaining terrorists in the area.
Following the recent attacks, Pakistani security forces conducted intelligence-based ground operations around Kohat, Hangu and Thal, followed by precision airstrikes against terrorist hideouts in the border region with Afghanistan.
According to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, nine terrorists belonging to Fitna al-Khawarij were killed during ground operations on September 20, while several others sustained injuries.
The ministry said subsequent airstrikes destroyed three terrorist facilities, including a suicide bombers’ training centre, killing 28 terrorists alongside multiple suicide bombers.
Large quantities of weapons and ammunition stored at the targeted facilities were also destroyed.
The ministry maintained that the strikes specifically targeted terrorist infrastructure and that maximum precautions were taken to prevent collateral damage.
Pakistan has repeatedly expressed concern over the presence of terrorist organisations operating from Afghan territory, maintaining that their training facilities, recruitment networks and safe havens pose a direct threat to its national security.
Following the Kohat attack, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting called upon the Afghan Taliban authorities to take credible, verifiable and sustained action against terrorist organisations operating from Afghanistan.
The ministry maintained that expressions of sympathy and condemnation must be accompanied by concrete measures to dismantle terrorist infrastructure.
The Taliban authorities have previously rejected Pakistan’s allegations concerning terrorist sanctuaries, while India has denied accusations of sponsoring terrorist organisations against Pakistan.
Pakistan has reiterated that its counterterrorism campaign, Ghazablil Haq, under the broader vision of Azm-e-Istehkam, will continue against foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism, with security forces and law enforcement agencies determined to safeguard citizens and eliminate terrorist networks threatening the country’s security.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026