Ozgur Altun (Abu Yasir al-Turki), a key operative of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (hereafter, IS-Khurasan), was apprehended on June 1, 2025, at an undisclosed location in Balochistan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. His arrest came as a result of a joint operation conducted by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Turkiye’s intelligence organization, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MİT) (Anadolu Agency, June 1).

The seeming resurgence of the Pro-Islamic State jihadist unit Ansar-ut Tawheed fi Bilad Al-Hind (hereafter AuT) through its media arm, Al-Isabah Media, represents a heightened threat to India's internal security and communal harmony. Al-Isabah's recent propaganda campaigns using AI tools and social media leverage sophisticated messaging, historical narratives, and sectarian incitement to radicalize vulnerable segments of Indian society.

Although the so-called Islamic State (IS) Caliphate crumbled and disintegrated in the Middle East, the group’s most potent branch, the IS-Khorasan Province (IS-KP) remains resilient. It continues to display its violent presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, fiercely withstanding the unremitting onslaughts from government and rival Taliban forces. The group demonstratively retains the ability to carry out gruesome attacks at will in the capital Kabul and its traditional strongholds in Eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.