Indian media has claimed that an individual killed during an “encounter” in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir’s Korag area was affiliated with the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and a soldier of the Pakistan military.
The claim by India media is attributed to sources and names the individual as Mohammad Asif.
“Mohammad Asif alias Hashim Moosa was born on 07 March 1980. He joined the Pakistan Army in 2000 under service number PA-3106947 and retired with the rank of Havildar,” claimed India’s Asian News International (ANI).
A response from Pakistani government and security forces officials is awaited.
“In 2005, Mohammad Asif was inducted into the Special Services Group (SSG). He served with 4 Commando “Yalgar” Battalion and was posted to Balochistan from 2006 onward. During his deployment in Balochistan, he reportedly participated in approximately 10 operations against Baloch insurgents and is credited with 13 personal kills,” the news report claimed further, adding that Asif was also part of the security detail of former president Pervez Musharraf.
It was further claimed by ANI that Asif was “wanted in the Pahalgam terror attack”.
The claim was also repeated by the Indian Army’s Chinar Corps — part of the Northern Command and headquartered in occupied Kashmir. The corps primary area of responsibility is the Kashmir area of operations.
In May 2025, a four-day conflict between Pakistan and India was sparked by an attack on tourists in occupied Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which New Delhi, without evidence, linked to Pakistan.
Islamabad strongly denied responsibility while calling for a neutral investigation.
After New Delhi launched deadly air strikes in Punjab and Azad Kashmir on May 7, Pakistan said it downed at least six Indian aircraft in air-to-air combat, later raising the tally to eight.
After tit-for-tat strikes on each other’s airbases, it took American intervention on May 10 for both sides to finally reach a ceasefire.
During that conflict, Indian media was heavily criticised for beating war drums and regurgitating fake news fed by Indian government sources. Many mainstream Indian channels also aired inflammatory anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim content.
India’s ranking in the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index has deteriorated sharply over the past decade. The country ranked 122nd in 2010 but fell to 157th out of 180 countries in 2026.
In April, on the first anniversary of the Pahalgam attack, Pakistan had rejected a renewed Indian propaganda campaign linking it to the attack, deploring that the neighbouring country was focusing on “weaponising its false narrative” in the midst of a regional crisis sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran.
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