The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which took over the case on March 9, 2022 of 10 Pakistani smugglers who had been apprehended by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) off the Gujarat coast with a cache of arms, ammunition and drugs worth INR 280 million on December 26, 2022 revealed in its investigation that they were sent by Haji Salim Baloch Wala, a drug lord in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, to commit terrorist activities in India and to provide funds to terror groups in Punjab and North India, reports The Indian Express on March 21. SATP had earlier reported the developments in this incident on December 27, 2022 and March 11, 2022.