Mumbai traffic police received alarming messages, warning of a 26/11-like terrorist attack if the Indian government failed to return Seema Haider—a Pakistani woman who had entered India via Nepal after falling in love with an Indian national through an online gaming application.

Efforts are currently underway to investigate the origin of these WhatsApp messages, suspected to have been sent from a foreign country. Police officers are diligently working to trace the sender, who may have employed techniques like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to hide their true location.

Written in Urdu, the messages explicitly stated, “Agar Seema Haider wapas nahi ayi, toh Bharat ka nash hoga” (If Seema Haider doesn't return, India will face destruction). The message further read “Everyone should be prepared for an attack similar to the 26/11 Mumbai terror incident, and the Uttar Pradesh government will be responsible for it.”

It's important to recall that on November 26, 2008, Mumbai was attacked by 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives, resulting in the loss of 164 lives and numerous injuries.

Seema Haider crossed borders illegally with her four children to be with her Hindu partner whom she met on PUBG Mobile. They settled in Greater Noida, raising concerns about national security.

Adding to this complexity a police officer said “Baloch dacoits have already recorded a video from Pakistan in which they have threatened that if Seema Haider is not sent back to their country, they will rape and kill the Hindu population living in Pakistan. In the viral video, four men are seen wearing masks and holding rifles,”

Similar incident happended in Aug 2022, a series of WhatsApp messages in Hindi were received by the traffic police control room, which claimed that seven Indians had made a terror plot that would be worse than 26/11. The sender also claimed himself to be from Pakistan. “UP ATS karwana chahti hai Mumbai udaana. (Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorism squad wants to destroy Mumbai),” one of the messages said.

The police could not trace the sender of those messages, as they originated from outside of India, but the seven numbers given by him were found to be held by Indians with no such motive.