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India Police Detain Bengal Man Over Alleged TTP Ties and Plan to Travel to Afghanistan

2026-08-16

Jihadis be dumb as a box of hair…

[KhaamaPress] Indian media reported that Bengaluru police have detained a 25-year-old man from West Bengal over alleged links with the Tehrik-e-Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Pakistain (TTP) and an alleged plan to travel to Afghanistan.

NDTV reported on Saturday, August 15, 2026, that Asafool Mallik was detained in the Jigani area of Bengaluru following alleged suspicious online activity and suspected contacts with a person believed by police to be associated with the TTP.

Police said Mallik, a native of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, had been working as a security guard at Tata Advanced Limited in Bengaluru’s Jigani Industrial Area since December 2025. According to police, they received information about his alleged activities while conducting patrols in the Bommasandra Industrial Area.

Investigators allege that Mallik established contact through Facebook with a person identified as Imran Haider from Afghanistan, who police believe has links to the TTP. Police said Mallik allegedly sought Haider’s assistance in travelling to Afghanistan and had applied for a visa.

According to police, Mallik told Sherlocks that he had considered travelling to Afghanistan because of his anger over what he believed were alleged atrocities by the Pak military against Moslems, including attacks on mosques and civilians. He also allegedly expressed anger over Pakistain’s position on the Israel-Paleostine conflict.

Police further alleged that Mallik was being encouraged to retaliate if Moslems faced difficulties in India. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
Sherlocks said he later abandoned his reported plan to travel to Afghanistan because of financial difficulties and responsibilities toward his family.

Police said a subsequent examination of Mallik’s mobile phone allegedly uncovered chats, voice calls and audio conversations between him and Haider. Investigators are examining the material to determine the extent and nature of the alleged relationship.

Police also reportedly found an AI-generated image of Mallik depicting himself as a mujahideen fighter. The image and the alleged online communications are among the material being examined as part of the investigation.

Authorities have not publicly established that Mallik carried out any attack, and the allegations against him remain subject to investigation and due process. The reported links to the TTP and plans to travel to Afghanistan are based on police claims cited by NDTV.

The case comes amid heightened security concerns in India over online radicalisation and alleged links between individuals in India and holy warrior networks operating in Afghanistan and Pakistain. The TTP is a Pakistain-based holy warrior group that has carried out attacks against Pak security forces and civilians and has maintained networks and contacts in the wider region.

𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗬

Bengaluru Police have arrested 25 year old Asaful Mallick, a West Bengal native working as a security guard in Jigani, for establishing contact with a suspected… pic.twitter.com/bmoIbAZmmM
— Pak-Afghan Matters (@pakafghanmatter) August 15, 2026

There is something almost deliciously ironic about this story coming out of Bengaluru.

For nearly half a century, Pakistan has made a business out of exporting terrorism into India, recruiting and radicalising Indian Muslim youth in the name of Islam, jihad, Kashmir and…
— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) August 15, 2026

… Sonam Mahajan
@AsYouNotWish
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There is something almost deliciously ironic about this story coming out of Bengaluru.

For nearly half a century, Pakistan has made a business out of exporting terrorism into India, recruiting and radicalising Indian Muslim youth in the name of Islam, jihad, Kashmir and Ghazwa-e-Hind, and sending them after the Indian state. Attacking the Indian Army has, for Pakistan’s security establishment and its jihadist proxies, often been treated almost as a matter of faith.

Now, the tables appear to be turning.

Bengaluru Police have arrested Asaful Mallick, a native of West Bengal, working as a security guard in an industrial area of Bengaluru, for planning to cross over to Pakistan-occupied Afghan territory along the Durand Line and undergo training for an attack against the Pakistan Army. He had reportedly befriended a TTP operative online and was in touch with him.

And his reasons are particularly interesting.

He was reportedly angry with the Pakistan Army over its atrocities against mosques and people in Pakistan, and over Pakistan’s position on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He was also apparently unhappy with Pakistan’s growing proximity to Israel under Asim Munir’s leadership.

What??? Pakistan just tried to get its partners Saudi Arabia and Turkey to join in attacking Israel. What on earth can a Jew-hater find to object to in that?? See —dumb as a box of hair.
Just imagine the irony.

For decades, Pakistan has assumed that it can weaponise Muslim identity against India. It has tried to convince Indian Muslims that their religious identity makes them natural enemies of the Indian state. But what happens when a Muslim youth looks across the border and concludes that it is Pakistan’s military that is the problem?

That is precisely the kind of blowback Pakistan should have anticipated.

And notice something else. It was the Indian police who acted against him. An FIR was filed by the sub-inspector himself after a lead from an informant, and the suspect was then traced to an under-construction building near Jigani.

This is what makes Pakistan’s repeated allegations of Indian state-sponsored terrorism so hollow. The Indian state does not need to manufacture terrorism while pretending to fight it. When someone is suspected of plotting an attack against another state, Indian law enforcement acts against that person.

Pakistan, meanwhile, has spent decades nurturing precisely the kind of ecosystem from which this sort of threat emerges.

Perhaps the real nightmare for Pakistan is not that Indians are learning its playbook.

It is that the very Muslim constituency it once hoped to radicalise against India may now be turning the same anger towards Pakistan itself.

Indeed, Allah is the best planner of all.

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