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India-Pakistan
ISIS fighters held from Peshawar hospital, returned to Afghanistan: Pak officials
2017-02-09
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak authorities have claimed the security forces tossed in the clink
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
four ISIS loyalists as they were receiving treatment in a hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
city.

The officials have said the arrested ISIS loyalists were handed over to the Afghan authorities.

A local official in Pakistain’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province Niaz Muhammad has said the turbans had crossed to Pakistain after they were maimed during the festivities with the security forces in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan.

The suspected turbans were identified as Javed Khan, Niamtullah, Safiullah and Taaliman, according to the local newspaper, Dawn.

The report further added that All the turbans belonged to Afghanistan’s Nangarhar district and had illegally crossed into Pakistain.

"Pakistain will never let its soil be used against Afghanistan and today’s move is a gesture toward peaceful Afghanistan," he said.
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