Security forces arrest Daesh cmdr. in east Afghanistan
A commander of the Daesh militant group has been arrested in a mop-up operation carried out by Afghan security forces against the Takfiri terrorists in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar.
Afghanistan’s intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said in a statement on Monday that Hayatullah alias Mansour was captured during an ambush in Torkham area of Nangarhar Province, situated 220 kilometers (137 miles) east of the capital, Kabul.
The statement added that two Pakistani nationals, identified as Yasir alias Sikandar and Bashir alias Abu Khalid Mohammadi, were also arrested along with the top Daesh militant figure.
The Pakistani pair had crossed the border into Nangarhar, and they were planning to carry out terrorist attacks.
On July 11, the leader of Daesh terrorist group in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, identified as 65-year-old Hafiz Saeed Khan, had been killed along with 30 other Takfiri militants during a US assassination drone strike in the Achin district of Nangarhar Province.
Saeed Khan, a former Taliban strongman and one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, had pledged allegiance to Daesh in January.
The development came only four days after Gul Zaman, the second-in-command of Daesh Takfiris in Afghanistan, was also killed along with his deputy Jahanyar and five others in a drone strike in the same Afghan region.
On June 16, the Taliban warned purported Daesh ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.”
The militant group asked the Daesh leader to keep his men out of Afghanistan by withdrawing his support for those elements that are recruiting young militants in the so-called Taliban strongholds.
Afghanistan is gripped by insecurity years after soldiers from the United States and its allies invaded the country in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.
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