Islamabad: Days after killing of Pakistani spokesperson Taliban In Afghanistan, Aslam Farooqui, former head of Islamic State of Khorasani (IS-K) has been killed in a shootout in the north of the war-torn country, local media reported on Monday. Farooqui was behind march 2020 attack At a Gurdwara in Kabul in which 27 Sikh worshipers were killed.
Reports of Farooqui’s death were confirmed by locals and close relatives of the IS-K leader in his native Orakzai, one of the volatile Pakistani tribal districts on the border with Afghanistan. The firing incident took place on Sunday in a remote area in northern Afghanistan. According to locals, his body will reach his hometown by Tuesday.
Farooqui replaced the group’s former leader, Abu Umar Khorasani, as the head of IS-K in July 2019, after the group suffered a setback under pressure from military operations by the US. afghan government and the Taliban in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.
In April 2020, he was arrested by the National Directorate of Security (NDS), a spy agency of the former US-backed Afghan government, from Kandahar in connection with a terrorist attack on a gurdwara in Kabul, in which 26 Afghan Sikh And an Indian citizen was killed.
After the capture of Kabul by the Taliban in August 2021, Farooqui was released from prison like other terrorists who were in Afghan prisons.
There were conflicting reports about Farooqui’s death. Some sources suggested that he was killed during an investigation by an Afghan government security agency related to organized kidnappers and the criminal mafia. The investigation reportedly resulted in a clash and Farooqui was killed along with his associates. However, there were also reports that the IS-K leader was killed during internal conflict within IS-K.
His death comes a week after Khalid Balti alias Muhammad Khurasani, the operational commander and spokesman of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Nangarhar province, was killed. Balti belonged to the northern region of Pakistan Gilgit-Baltistan,
Reports of Farooqui’s death were confirmed by locals and close relatives of the IS-K leader in his native Orakzai, one of the volatile Pakistani tribal districts on the border with Afghanistan. The firing incident took place on Sunday in a remote area in northern Afghanistan. According to locals, his body will reach his hometown by Tuesday.
Farooqui replaced the group’s former leader, Abu Umar Khorasani, as the head of IS-K in July 2019, after the group suffered a setback under pressure from military operations by the US. afghan government and the Taliban in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.
In April 2020, he was arrested by the National Directorate of Security (NDS), a spy agency of the former US-backed Afghan government, from Kandahar in connection with a terrorist attack on a gurdwara in Kabul, in which 26 Afghan Sikh And an Indian citizen was killed.
After the capture of Kabul by the Taliban in August 2021, Farooqui was released from prison like other terrorists who were in Afghan prisons.
There were conflicting reports about Farooqui’s death. Some sources suggested that he was killed during an investigation by an Afghan government security agency related to organized kidnappers and the criminal mafia. The investigation reportedly resulted in a clash and Farooqui was killed along with his associates. However, there were also reports that the IS-K leader was killed during internal conflict within IS-K.
His death comes a week after Khalid Balti alias Muhammad Khurasani, the operational commander and spokesman of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Nangarhar province, was killed. Balti belonged to the northern region of Pakistan Gilgit-Baltistan,
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