...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) said on Monday.
Zia-Ul-Haq, known as Abu Omar Khorasani, the ISIS leader for south and east areas of Asia was arrested along with Saheeb, head of public relations, and Abu Ali, the group’s intelligence head. Police and NDS special forces apprehended the men in the Kart-e-Naw area in PD8 of Kabul city, according to the NDS’s statement.
The operation to arrest these ISIS leaders was launched after the four other ISIS senior members confessed while in the custody of the NDS, the statement said.
According to the NDS, Abu Omar Khorasani is a citizen of Afghanistan and he was arrested in Kabul.
Five days ago the special unit of the NDS raided "terrorist hideouts" in three operations— two in Kabul’s PD11 and another in Shakar Dara district, 25 kilometers north of the capital city.
According to the NDS statement, five faceless myrmidons were killed in the operations and eight others were maimed.
According to the NDS, the group was comprised of ISIS and Haqqani network
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani...members and led by Sanatullah, a ISIS commander, and was involved in the rocket attack on President Ghani’s inauguration ceremony, the attack on the Sikh temple in Kabul, the attack on Afghan politicians gathering in the west of Kabul, and another two rocket attacks on Kabul, the NDS said.
The NDS added that the group was also involved in assassinations in Kabul.
A large number of explosives and weapons were confiscated, according to the NDS statement.
Security force members also sustained casualties in the operation: two were killed and six others were maimed, according to security sources.
In April, Asalam Farooqi, a key member of ISIS’s Khorasan branch, and 19 of his associates were arrested in the southern province of Kandahar, said the NDS.
"Abdullah Orakzai, who is known as Aslam Farooqi, the leader of the Khorasan branch of the ISIS terrorist group, and his 19 associates, including Qari Zahid and Saifullah, known as Abu Talaha, were arrested during...complex operation by the special units of the National Directorate of Security," the NDS said.
According to the statement, Farooqi is a native of Orakzai agency, which is located in the tribal areas of Pakistain.
Farooq was operating as the commander of ISIS’s military wing in Pakistain’s Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 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 Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
city and was deployed in Abdul Khel valley of Achin district of the eastern province of 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..
, said the statement.
The NDS also stated that after the killing of Abu Saeed Bajawri, Farooqi was appointed as ISIS’s shadow governor in Afghanistan.
Farooqi was "enjoying close relations" with the other terrorist groups such as the "Haqqani network" and "Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
," said the statement.
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