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Senior ISKP leader Sheikh Abu Fatih confirmed Al-Azaim Media as ISKP’s official outlet, framing the 2 September 2025 Quetta suicide attack on BNP chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal as retaliation for the Mastung assault, while portraying the Kunar earthquake as divine punishment.

An Umar Media tribute video revealed that Saqib Gandapur, shadow governor of Dera Ismail Khan, helped plan the 2023 Mianwali airbase attack before being killed in a 15 February 2025 security raid.

A Pakistani militant group, Harakat-e-Inqilab-e-Islami Pakistan (IIP), announced the merger of the Khalid bin Waleed Group. The announcement, shared on social media, included footage of a recent attack on a police vehicle in South Waziristan.

Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan (IMP) carried out 83 attacks in July 2025, nearly doubling its operations since April. A new report highlights the group’s first claimed attack in Peshawar and its growing use of quadcopter drones.

The TTP’s announcement of the merger of a militant group from Charsadda district has once again brought internal rifts within the organization into media.

Al-Mersad, a media outlet supportive of the Taliban, has published a collection of essays aimed at countering propaganda from the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) and responding to narrative confrontations with media outlets aligned with the Pakistani state.