From Kashmir to Afghanistan and Russia: India unveils dossier on Pakistan’s global terror trail
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security at his residence, the government unveiled a dossier documenting Pakistan’s global terror trail, spanning regions from Kashmir to Afghanistan and Russia.
The document also features a list of terror training camps Pakistan is hosting across provinces like Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly NWFP), Waziristan, and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
“These camps, operated by groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), and transnational outfits like ISIS-Khorasan, serve as hubs for radicalization, weapons training, and suicide mission preparation. Ex-Pakistani Army personnel often assist in training, lending military expertise to enhance operational lethality,” official sources said.
The dossier comes a day after India, citing Pakistan Defence Minister Khwaja Asif’s confession with respect to financing terror networks, said at the UN that Pakistan stood exposed as a rogue state fuelling global terrorism.
The document lists “Pakistan’s record in sponsoring, sheltering, and exporting terrorism as one of the most dangerous and destabilizing forces in the world.”
“For decades, Pakistan soil has been used as a launchpad for cross-border terrorism, insurgency, and extremist ideology. In 2018, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, suggested that the Pakistani government played a role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group. Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf conceded that his forces trained militant groups to fight India in Jammu and Kashmir. He confessed that the government turned a blind eye because it wanted to force India to enter into negotiations, as well as raise the issue internationally,” sources said.
The dossier also documents Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif’s recent admission that the country supported terrorist groups for more than three decades, calling it a mistake tied to US-led foreign policy decisions.
The official sources also cite evidence of Pakistan sponsored terrorism across countries.
Under the head “Exporting Terrorism Globally”, it mentions Taliban and the Haqqani Network Attacks in Afghanistan where it says “Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) has been widely documented as supporting the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network, providing them with funding, training, and safe havens.”
The dossier noted that these groups have been responsible for numerous deadly attacks on Afghan civilians, government targets, and international forces, including the 2008 Indian Embassy bombing in Kabul and the 2011 attack on the US Embassy in Kabul. It cites journalist Carlotta Gall’s book, where she wrote, “The embassy bombing was no operation by rogue ISI agents acting on their own. It was sanctioned and monitored by the most senior officials in Pakistani intelligence.”
Official sources also flagged that in the Moscow Concert Hall Attack of 2024, a Pakistan link emerged in the investigation of the Moscow terror attack in April 2025.
“Russian authorities identified the mastermind as a Tajik national and are probing connections to Pakistan, with reports suggesting that the attackers may have had logistical or ideological support tracing back to Pakistani networks.
“Pakistan-based Sunni extremist group Jaish ul-Adl has repeatedly attacked Iranian security forces in Sistan and Baluchestan province. In response, Iran carried out missile and drone strikes on 16 January 2024 inside Pakistan’s Balochistan province, targeting what it described as Jaish ul-Adl hideouts,” it states.
The document adds that Iran has regularly accused Pakistan of harbouring and failing to act against Sunni militants who stage attacks across the border.
Flagging the 7 July 2005 London bombings, carried out by four British Islamist terrorists, the dossier says these were linked to training and indoctrination in Pakistan.
“Three of the bombers-Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, and Germaine Lindsay-spent time in Pakistan between 2003 and 2005,” the document says, recalling Al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden’s sanctuary in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the 2011 US raid that killed him.
“The raid exposed systemic failures in Pakistan’s counterterrorism efforts. Bin Laden had lived undetected for years in a compound near Pakistan’s Military Academy, raising suspicions of ISI collusion,” the document says, adding that Pakistan’s ISI has been accused of funding and training Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a banned Islamist group responsible for the 2016 Gulshan café attack in Dhaka where 20 hostages were killed.
“In 2015, Bangladeshi authorities expelled Pakistani diplomats after catching them red-handed transferring funds to JMB operatives,” it says.
The dossier also speaks of a 2020 intelligence report revealing ISI’s involvement in training 40 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps through JMB, aiming to infiltrate them into India.
“JMB’s network, funded via Gulf-based NGOs and Pakistani intermediaries, spans Bangladesh and India, with sleeper cells in states like West Bengal and Kerala. The group’s ties to Pakistan’s intelligence apparatus illustrate Islamabad’s alleged use of transnational proxies to destabilize regional rivals,” it adds.
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