ISI's fallen official 'singlehandedly defeated Da'ish in Punjab'.

KARACHI -- A senior intelligence officer martyred in a terrorist gun attack earlier this week in southern Punjab was a 'nightmare for Da'ish' who had 'single-handedly' denied the Khorasan enterprise of the Middle Eastern terrorist group a foothold in the province, according to sources.

Muhammad Naveed Sadiq, a director at the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and his comrade Inspector Nasir Abbas were martyred in a gun attack by a terrorist, identified as Umar Khan, s/o Muhammad Akram Khan, at Bismillah Highway Restaurant, in Khanewal, on January 3.

A little-known terrorist group calling itself Lashkar-e-Khorasan immediately claimed responsibility. Within hours the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) cast doubts on the claim with its spokesperson Muhammad Khorasni saying the deadly attack was carried out by a 'secret squad' of the TTP.

He cited a 'delay in information from colleagues' as the reason for the delay in the TTP's credit claim. Both the claims, however, are untrue because it is suspected that the attacker, who was an informer on al Qaeda terrorist group, turned out to be a double agent.

Director General ISI Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum, who keeps a low profile, travelled to Lahore to join other senior military officials and government functionaries to attend the funeral of the...