OKARA (Kashmir English): The District Police Officer (DPO) of Okara has strongly denied reports of the killing of a top-ranking commander of ISIS-K in Akhtarabad, Punjab.
This rumor surfaced on social media when former US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, citing unverified reports, tweeted on X that an ISIS-K commander named Burhan, alias Zaid, had been killed in the area.
Pakistani officials explained that the report first came from Almirsaad, a Taliban-affiliated anti-ISIS-K propaganda website involved in spreading anti-IS narratives. It claimed ISIS-K existed in Punjab and attributed the alleged killing to local law enforcement action.
Unknown armed men have killed Burhan, also known as Zaid, a senior commander of ISIS-K, in the Patak area of Akhtar Abad city, Punjab, Pakistan. He was a key commander within the group and a close associate of Qari Fateh and Abu Bakr. Notably, he had previously held a position of… pic.twitter.com/ORbqoWlzWK
— Al-Mirsaad English (@AlmirsadEnglish) November 16, 2025
Authorities declared the allegations “completely baseless,” saying the story was part of a propaganda campaign to discredit Pakistan by suggesting cross-border ISIS-K activity on its territory.
DPO Okara confirmed that no operation, encounter, or security incident took place in Akhtarabad and termed all such reports as “entirely false and misleading.”
Officials said that the law-enforcement and intelligence agencies remain fully vigilant in Pakistan, and such misinformation fosters only unnecessary alarm.
