Archive · 29 Nov 2025
ISI Plans Indian Mujahideen Revival with PFI
The ISI, which is Pakistan's intelligence agency, is planning to bring back a group called Indian Mujahideen.
This group was started by two brothers, Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal, who now live in Pakistan.
The ISI wants to give this group a new name and work with another group called PFI to create a network across India.
The goal is to make India focus on this new group instead of the problems in Jammu and Kashmir.
The ISI wants to use this new group to carry out attacks in different parts of India.
Experts say this is a tricky situation for India's security.
ISI plans to revive Indian Mujahideen with a new name and link up with PFI.
Bhatkal brothers, co-founders of Indian Mujahideen, are tasked to run the new outfit from Pakistan.
PFI will focus on South India due to its better reach there.
The goal is to divert security attention from Jammu and Kashmir to the rest of India.
The new terror group aims to execute blasts across the country to shift security focus.
- Who
- ISI, Bhatkal brothers, PFI, Indian Mujahideen operatives
- What
- Plans to revive Indian Mujahideen with a new name and link up with PFI
- When
- Currently, with indications of recent shifts in tactics
- Where
- India, with focus on northern and southern parts
- Why
- To divert security attention from Jammu and Kashmir and execute blasts across India
- Bhatkal Brothers
- Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal, co-founders of Indian Mujahideen
- ISI
- Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
- PFI
- Popular Front of India, a banned organization
- SIMI
- Students Islamic Movement of India, a banned organization
- Indian Mujahideen
- A terrorist group with home-grown operatives