Pakistan’s Foreign Office admitted that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISSI) terrorist group is posing a serious threat to the country.
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s Foreign
Secretary, said Monday that the government of Pakistan is on alert to
the Islamic State threat in the region.
Briefing lawmakers in Senate Standing
Committee at the Parliament House Chaudhry said some extremist elements
tried to emerge together on the ISIS platform following the Operation
Zarb-e-Azb was launched in North Waziristan last year.
The remarks by Chaudhry were followed
after Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chadhry Nisar Ali Khan denied the
presence of ISIS in South Asia, particularly in Pakistan.
This comes as former Pakistani Taliban
leaders who announced their allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISSI) released a video purportedly showing the beheading of a man
whom they identify as a Pakistani military soldier.
The video was released earlier last
month by ISIS on Twitter and Jihadi forums, was purportedly showing the
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP’s) former spokesman Shahidullah Shahid
along with dozens of other militants in a wooded area.
Other militants who appearing in the
video also pledged their allegiance to ISIS terrorist group and claimed
that they belong to militant groups based in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Source: khaama
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