Overview
- The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting used its fact-checking account to challenge a post by Zalmay Khalilzad about an alleged ISIS-K killing.
- Khalilzad had claimed on X that a senior ISIS-K figure, Burhan (also known as Zaid), was killed in the Patak area of Akhtarabad in Punjab.
- The ministry said the incident occurred in Habibabad, Kasur district, in March and was not a counter-terrorism operation.
- An FIR was registered on March 6 at the Saddar Pattoki police station, and authorities are treating the case as a criminal matter.
- Officials reported no evidence linking Burhan to ISIS-K and cited security assessments finding no ISKP elements present in Punjab.