Security Risk Monitoring and Threat Assessment: Ittehad-ul-Mujahidin Pakistan (IMP)

Military Operations October 2025

Daniele Garofalo Monitoring is registered with the Italian National ISSN Centre and the Centre for the Registration of Serial Publications (CIEPS) in Paris.

ISSN (International Standard Serial Number): 3103-3520

ORCID Code: 0009-0006-5289-2874

Objectives of the analysis: 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: October 2025

Methodology: monitoring of jihadist propaganda (videos, photos, statements, claims) and reports from sources in the field.

Sources: open sources, primary sources available on IMP channels and websites, official reports, local sources in the field. The study utilises OSINT, SOCMINT and Digital HUMINT sources.

Verification: cross-checking, date cross-checking, use of local and international sources.

Limitations: incomplete information (sometimes reports and claims by groups exaggerate numbers or do not claim activities that have actually been carried out), bias in sources, possibility of propaganda and disinformation.

Structure of the analysis: group overview, updates on recent military activity, analysis of the number of attacks, graphs and statistics, photos, areas, conclusions and assessments.

Organisations/groups: Ittehad-ul-Mujahidin Pakistan (IMP)

Allied/Affiliated: The IMP is suspected of being supported by al-Qaeda.

Areas/Country: Pakistan

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.

While avoiding direct reference to the new alliance, the TTP has spread a series of ideological messages through its newspaper, Bunyanum Marsoos. These included a written version of a speech by Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, which stressed the need for unity under one leadership, banner and structure. He invoked the success of the Afghan Taliban as a model rooted in discipline and central authority and warned against divisions, which he held responsible for past setbacks.