{"id":94495,"date":"2025-12-18T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=94495"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:26:03","slug":"pakistan-arrests-alleged-isis-k-spokesperson-sultan-aziz-azam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-arrests-alleged-isis-k-spokesperson-sultan-aziz-azam\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan arrests ISIS-K spokesperson Sultan Aziz Azam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Sultan Aziz Azam, the spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/top-us-general-stresses-importance-of-relations-with-both-india-and-pakistan\/\">ISIS-K<\/a> and founder of the organization\u2019s official media wing, Al-Azam Foundation, has been arrested by Pakistan\u2019s top intelligence agency.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Azam Foundation is considered the main organization for ISIS-K\u2019s recruitment and propaganda activities. Media activities have also been suspended following Aziz Aizam\u2019s arrest<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani authorities have made several high-profile arrests against ISIS-K in recent days, including the arrest of the organization\u2019s spokesperson, Sultan Aziz Aizam, on May 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed in the sixteenth report of the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team. According to the report, Pakistan\u2019s actions have weakened the organizational structure of ISIS-K globally.<\/p>\n<p>Several planned attacks have been thwarted, while the number of fighters in the organization has decreased and Key commanders and ideological leaders have been neutralized.<\/p>\n<p>Measures such as the arrest of Sultan Aziz Izzam and senior leader Abu Yasir al-Turki in May 2025 have significantly reduced the organization\u2019s operational strength.<\/p>\n<p>These actions have also led to the suspension of key propaganda platforms such as the \u201cVoice of Khorasan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering the media, Izzam was also an advisor to the Nangarhar Provincial Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Sultan Aziz Azam, the spokesperson for ISIS-K and founder of the organization\u2019s official media wing, Al-Azam Foundation, has been arrested by Pakistan\u2019s top intelligence agency. Al-Azam Foundation is considered the main organization for ISIS-K\u2019s recruitment and propaganda activities. Media activities have also been suspended following Aziz Aizam\u2019s arrest Pakistani authorities have made several high-profile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":94496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33104],"class_list":["post-94495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-isis-spokesperson-sultan-aziz-azam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94498,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94495\/revisions\/94498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}