ISIS delegation visited Balochistan: Jundullah
While the government denies the footprint of a Middle
Eastern ultra-extremist group in Pakistan, a delegation of the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), aka Islamic State, or IS, is said to
have visited Balochistan recently to liaise with militant groups there,
the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
The revelation came a day after Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali
Khan told journalists in Karachi that the IS didn’t exist in Pakistan,
though he conceded that some local groups might have been attracted
towards the organization.
A spokesman for the Jundullah claimed on Wednesday the visit of the
IS delegation took place this week in Balochistan. The purpose of visit
was to see how the IS could work to unite various Pakistani militant
groups, the spokesman, Fahad Marwat, added. Jundullah is a franchise of
the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Earlier, the Balochistan government had conveyed a confidential
report to the federal government and law enforcement agencies warning of
increased footprints of the IS, also known by the Arabic acronym Daish,
in Pakistan.
In a related development, German police arrested nine men suspected
of supporting the IS and raided numerous properties in one of the
largest sweeps against alleged militants in Germany yet, prosecutors
said on Wednesday.
A 58-year-old Pakistani man, Mirza Tamoor B, was arrested on
suspicion that he smuggled two fighters from Germany to Syria, while a
31-year-old German, Kais BO, was detained on suspicion of recruiting
three other potential jihadis and helping them to travel to Syria,
federal prosecutors said.
Source: tribune.com.pk
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