Pakistan’s Dirty War: NIA Unmasks Pakistan’s Terror and Drug Offensive Targeting India’s Youth
New Delhi, April 26, 2025
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has ripped the veil off Pakistan’s latest dirty war against India — a dual assault using both terror and narcotics to destabilize the country and destroy its youth.
In a massive crackdown on Thursday, NIA teams raided 18 locations across Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Karnataka. Acting on intelligence
inputs, sleuths seized critical electronic devices and other incriminating evidence pointing to a Pakistan-backed Khalistani network that has been flooding India with weapons and drugs across the border.
The ongoing investigation, under case number RC-18/2024/NIA/DLI registered on December 20, 2024, has revealed that individuals influenced by banned and extremist organizations have been radicalized through sophisticated online propaganda.
These operatives maintained regular contact with handlers based in Pakistan, many of whom are suspected to be associated with pro-Khalistan extremist (PKE) outfits.
Sources in the security establishment reveal that Pakistan’s ISI is not just sheltering terror groups but has unleashed a calculated "narcotics jihad" — using potent synthetic drugs like 'chitta' (heroin) to hook and wreck the lives of India’s young generation.
The weapons and drugs are often bundled together in cross-border smuggling operations, exposing the dangerous cocktail designed to weaken India's internal security and social fabric.
Investigators have traced the network's digital footprints across encrypted messaging apps and social media platforms where they plotted recruitment, radicalization, and logistics operations under the cover of anonymity.
The aim: to foment unrest in Punjab and Kashmir and push India into a spiral of internal conflict and youth degradation.
Top officials warn that Pakistan’s strategy has moved beyond traditional terror to a full-spectrum hybrid warfare model — mixing proxy terrorism, psychological operations, and narcotics to poison India’s future. Intelligence agencies believe the volume of narcotics seizures along the Punjab and Rajasthan borders is just the tip of the iceberg.
Security experts are now calling for intensified, coordinated combing operations by the Army, paramilitary forces, and state police, not just to intercept arms and infiltrators but also to bust the drug networks funding terrorism.
“Pakistan’s rogue establishment has weaponized drugs as a tool of war. It’s not just Punjab; sleeper cells are spreading tentacles into Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and southern states too. The entire nation must stay alert," said a senior counterterrorism official.
The NIA has vowed a deep and sustained probe to map the full extent of the conspiracy, identify all domestic operatives, and dismantle the cross-border terror-drug nexus that threatens the country’s sovereignty and the lives of millions of young Indians.
As the investigation deepens, one thing is clear: Pakistan’s war against India is being fought not only with guns and bombs but also with syringes and addiction — a silent, slow, but equally devastating weapon.
