Security Risk Monitoring and Threat Assessment of Ittehad-ul-Mujahidin Pakistan

Military Operations June 2025

This report examines and analyses the military operations of Ittehad-ul-Mujahidin Pakistan (IMP). It is possible to understand the current and future security risks by examining the attacks conducted, their targets, areas of operation, and the types of attacks performed.

Date: June 2025

Method: Monitoring of group propaganda (videos, photos, statements, claims) and reports from field sources.

Areas/Country: Pakistan

Alliance/Affiliation: The group may be linked to or supported by al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), but at present, there are no concrete elements to confirm this information.

Overview:

In early April 2025, the formation of a new militant jihadist alliance in Pakistan was announced, called Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan (IMP).

The IMP was born from the union of three Pakistani jihadist groups: Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group (HBG), Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) and Harkat Inqilab-e-Islami Pakistan (HIIP). The announcement was made on 11 April 2025, released simultaneously through the official media sections of all three groups. The statement announced the formation of the IMP as a unified front to "raise the word of Allah, support the oppressed. And conduct the armed struggle under a shared ideological and organisational structure. The founding statement also announced that Mahmood ul-Hasan is the official spokesperson of the IMP, while its media wing will operate under the name Sada-e-Ghazwat-ul-Hind. Since that day, all the attack claims and public communications of the constituent groups have been published exclusively under the aegis of the IMP and its media wing.

The conduct of multiple high-level attacks using various technologies (drones in particular) together with the dissemination of claims in different languages such as Urdu, Pashtu and English suggests a deliberate effort to signal operational sophistication and trans-regional reach.

The emergence of the IMP has triggered an ideological defensive response by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is considered to be the only spokesman for jihadist militancy in the country.