The group is understood to be preparing a new push to seize territory in the province of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
The area is widely-known to be the centre of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, with controversial underground testing of atomic explosive devices in the 1990s.
And Middle East terror experts are now warning that the extremist group could be close to obtaining a ‘dirty’ bomb.
Afzal Ashraf, a former senior officer in the RAF, said Pakistan was “the most likely place” for ISIS to obtain a nuclear explosive.
He argued that the organisation, which has declared a ‘caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria after gaining vast swathes of territory, was now enjoying “success in getting support” in a region at the heart of Pakistan’s nuclear programme.
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