ANI | | Posted by Nisha Anand
Taliban have claimed the killing of 4 ISIS militants which incorporates 2 senior commanders within the northeastern Afghan province of Takhar, media stories mentioned citing a Taliban-controlled information company. Qari Aminullah Tayeb, a Talibani commander mentioned they discovered an ISIS hideout in Takhar throughout a joint operation on Saturday, reported Khaama Press citing the Bakhtar information company.
The ISIS militants allegedly died in a village in Takhar province’s Dashti Qala district, Aminullah added. Equally, in a separate assertion on Saturday, the Taliban authorities claimed to have killed six ISIS members on Friday evening in Kabul.
In response to the Taliban, the killed militants had been behind the lethal assault on the Kaaj schooling centre and the explosion close to Wazir Muhammad Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul, reported Khaama Press. Nonetheless, it’s noteworthy that the Taliban’s claims can’t be ascertained. ISIS-Ok (the ok stands for Khorasan, the identify of a historic area that coated components of contemporary Afghanistan and Pakistan) has been working in Afghanistan for the previous couple of years.
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It’s a department of ISIS — the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Since its formation in 2015, the terrorist outfit has carried out quite a few assaults on Afghan civilians and is held answerable for hundreds of deaths, CNN reported citing the Wilson Heart, a non-partisan coverage discussion board.
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, which was extensively celebrated in Pakistan in August final 12 months, has worsened the fear state of affairs within the nation. In 2021, militants, primarily belonging to the Pakistani Taliban, killed 48 policemen and injured 44 others within the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A lot of the violent incidents occurred in the previous couple of months of the 12 months (after the Taliban takeover).
Regardless of repeated makes an attempt, Pakistan has been unable to get agency ensures from the Afghan Taliban that they’d take motion in opposition to the Pakistani Taliban working in Afghanistan.