ISIS Leadership Transferred To Pakistan With Help Of Intelligence Agencies, Claims Taliban

The Taliban spokesman announced that the leaders and members of ISIS-K have been transferred from Afghanistan to Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan with the help of intelligence agencies.

Zabihullah Mujahid said that ISIS-K has training centres in these provinces of Pakistan.

Mujahid said in a statement on Monday, that the group's special unit arrested the perpetrators of the attack on the employees of the General Directorate of Prosecution and Supervision of Orders and Judgments (formerly the Prosecutor's Office) by launching operations in Kabul and Nangarhar.

"After ISIS was eliminated by special units," Mujahid said, the group's leaders and remaining members of ISIS-K were transferred to Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa "with the help of some intelligence agencies", where they have training centres.

The Taliban spokesman said that ISIS-K "carries out attacks from these new centres both in Afghanistan and other countries, as well as target religious scholars and members of religious, and political groups in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and in some cases, use them for their sinister purposes”.

Previously, Pakistan has always accused the Taliban government of harbouring terrorist groups such as ISIS and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), but this time the Taliban has accused Pakistan.

The Taliban spokesman's statement said that the detained ISIS members were also involved in other attacks, including attacks on foreign tourists in Bamiyan. Among them was a Tajik citizen who was planning a suicide attack, the statement said.

The Taliban spokesman said that the group's forces also killed two ISIS members in Faryab and Kabul.