Overview

• Lashkar commander Kasim, seen at the demolished Muridke site, acknowledged training at the camp and urged recruits to join a program he touted, adding a new facility would be larger.
• Following India’s Operation Sindoor, reports say JeM and Hizbul elements are moving operations from PoK to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with open recruitment in Mansehra and new training centers being set up.
• The NIA has asked Delhi High Court to award Yasin Malik the death penalty in the terror-funding case, as his affidavit claims past meetings with top political and security figures and government-issued travel.
• UP policing stayed in focus as Bareilly police shot and arrested a fifth suspect in the Disha Patani house-firing probe and a Newslaundry investigation alleged staged ‘half-encounters’ in multiple districts.
• Fresh flashpoints included a fatal NH48 traffic delay involving a toddler, a Mainpuri probe after children were filmed sweeping a school, and unrest in Vadodara and Junigadhi over an AI image of Mecca–Medina.