{"id":35,"date":"2026-02-26T06:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:18:57","slug":"is-khorasan-a-bigger-threat-more-entrenched-than-ttp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/2026\/02\/26\/is-khorasan-a-bigger-threat-more-entrenched-than-ttp\/","title":{"rendered":"IS-Khorasan a \u2018bigger threat\u2019, \u2018more entrenched\u2019 than TTP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Security personnel stand guard outside an imambargah following an explosion, in Islamabad on February 6, 2026. \u2014AFP\/File
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\nWITHIN hours of the bombing of an Islamabad Imambargah on Feb 6, Pakistani intelligence and law enforcement zeroed in on a home in Hakimabad, Nowshera, 49km east of Peshawar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a race against time. Sifting through technical data, establishing coordinates and isolating the target,\u201d a senior security official said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t take long before we knew the location.\u201d<\/p>\n

By late evening, they had already laid siege to the residence, taken up position and called out those inside to come out, hands raised, and surrender.<\/p>\n

For a moment, there was no movement. But then, someone showed a raised hand from behind the door, indicating their willingness to surrender. Except that he didn\u2019t<\/p>\n

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Security personnel stand guard outside an imambargah following an explosion, in Islamabad on February 6, 2026. \u2014AFP\/File 1x 1.2x 1.5x comments Whatsapp Channel WITHIN hours of the bombing of an Islamabad Imambargah on Feb 6, Pakistani intelligence and law enforcement zeroed in on a home in Hakimabad, Nowshera, 49km east of Peshawar. \u201cIt was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/abid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}