{"id":1008566,"date":"2026-05-18T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008566"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:28:56","slug":"up-emerges-as-key-target-in-pak-linked-digital-radicalisation-sleeper-cell-network-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/up-emerges-as-key-target-in-pak-linked-digital-radicalisation-sleeper-cell-network-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"UP emerges as key target in Pak-linked digital radicalisation, sleeper-cell network probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh has emerged as a major target in Pakistan\u2019s evolving digital radicalisation and sleeper-cell recruitment strategy, with recent ATS arrests and multi-district investigations exposing an expanding network allegedly operated through social media by Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti and handlers linked to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), senior central and state security agencies said.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies say the network reflects a new-age \u201chybrid threat\u201d model in which online radicalisation, espionage, organised crime and covert anti-India activities are increasingly merged through decentralised and civilian-embedded modules that are harder to detect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh has emerged as a major target in Pakistan\u2019s evolving digital radicalisation and sleeper-cell recruitment strategy, with recent ATS arrests and multi-district investigations exposing an expanding network allegedly operated through social media by Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti and handlers linked to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), senior central and state security agencies said. Security agencies say the network reflects a new-age \u201chybrid threat\u201d model in which online radicalisation, espionage, organised crime and covert anti-India activities are increasingly merged through decentralised and civilian-embedded modules that are harder to detect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008567,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008566\/revisions\/1008567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}