There's panic in Rawalpindi, Pak army Headquarters :::: Worse conditions prevail in Islamabad !! Political leadership is nowhere in scene :::: ISI pushing narrative that "terror violence" in Jammu and Kashmir is "home-grown" and not CROSS BORDER phenomenon

By attempting to revive some of the older, home-grown banners, the ISI of Pakistan aims to project a false narrative that the terror violence in Jammu and Kashmir is an internal, home-grown movement rather than a proxy war orchestrated from across the border. 

The security agencies are now closely tracking the resurfacing of names of terror groups that defined the initial, bloody phase of the Jammu and Kashmir terror in the 1990s and early 2000s, including Al-Umar Mujahideen, Al Badr and Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen.

This is a mix of guilt conscience and sinister designs. 

They want to conceal proxy war games orchestrated from across the border in the past. But all these have failed when the Article 370 was abrogated. It was just more than a 'national agenda' or a sheer saffron promise. It left Pakistan leaking wounds.

All its investments in the past decades have gone into vain. 

While the high command of these revived terror groups remains safely sheltered in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, their ground-level networks are attempting to become active in propaganda, funding and radicalisation. 

The officials said that central intelligence agencies are maintaining a tight vigil on these developments and ensuring neutralisation of the logistical networks being spun by these "resurfaced OGWs". 

The 'Over Ground Workers' (OGW) are individuals who provide logistical, financial, and informational support to militant and terrorist groups without directly engaging in armed violence.  

The ISI is also trying to recalibrate its strategy by making desperate attempts to revive dormant, locally-founded terror outfits from the early 1990s to give an "indigenous colour" to terrorist violence.

They want to "mask the direct involvement" by Pakistan, which is facing constant monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) -- the global watchdog on money laundering and terror financing. 

Moreover, Operation Sindoor of 88 hours in May 2025 also left Pakistan devastated. Pakistan is also greatly worried that another such operation by New Delhi may come sooner than later. Indian army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi and other military experts have been speaking about these possibilities from time to time.      

“As far as Operation Sindoor is concerned, firstly, it is still continuing. There is a temporary cessation of hostilities. So the Indian Army and all three services are preparing well for Operation Sindoor 2.0 if it takes place,” said Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Saturday.  

Recent interrogation of OGWs arrested by Srinagar police showed that some of them were part of 'national political parties'.

By embedding terror sympathisers, who provide critical logistical support, recruitment and funding to terror outfits, in legitimate political structures, the ISI hopes to shield its assets from the ongoing operations by security forces.  

Rawalpindi is running out of options because their conventional terror groups are under intense pressure from security forces and the local support base for newer proxy outfits has shrunk significantly.

By trying to resurrect old names and blending their workers into mainstream politics, they are attempting to capitalise on a historical narrative to lure a new generation of youth while buying political immunity for their operatives.

Security officials have noted that this tactic has evolved over the decades as suspects routinely used voter identity cards to evade police in the late 1990s, and later tried to use Aadhar cards to dodge deep investigations.

The officials made it clear that no political leadership has ever stepped in to save such people.

In a related development, the OGW activities have been seen in reviving outfits that had become largely defunct after 1993.  

When an OGW is cornered during cordon and search operations, they often attempt to flash basic membership cards of national political parties in a futile bid to escape the dragnet.

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