Arrest of ISIS Members from Kabul and Nangarhar; ISIS Enters Afghanistan from Pakistan’s Balochistan

Bayan News – Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban government, stated that in a recent operation by their forces, several members of ISIS-Khorasan were arrested in Kabul and Nangarhar.

On Monday (September 30), Mujahid wrote on the platform X that the detained ISIS members were responsible for the attack on the General Directorate of Pursuit and Monitoring of Decrees and Orders, as well as the attack on foreign tourists in Bamiyan province.

According to the Taliban spokesperson, a Tajik national, who was planning a suicide attack, was also arrested from the hideout of the planner and organizer of these attacks.

However, the Taliban have not disclosed the exact number of ISIS members arrested.

According to Mujahid’s statements, from the ISIS hideouts in Kabul and Nangarhar, a suicide vest, two weapons, and ammunition were seized by Taliban forces.

Zabihullah Mujahid further wrote that investigations revealed that the attackers on the employees of the General Directorate of Pursuit and Monitoring of Decrees had come to Afghanistan from an ISIS-Khorasan training camp in “Mastung,” Balochistan.

This Taliban official stated: “In the course of these operations, in several other operations in the provinces of Kabul and Faryab, two of these insurgents were killed, and several others were arrested alive. Among them are individuals who had recently entered Afghanistan from the ISIS-Khorasan training camp in Mastung, Balochistan.”

The Taliban spokesperson noted that ISIS has training centers and camps in Balochistan, adding that after the Taliban’s special forces eliminated ISIS, the remaining leaders and members of ISIS-Khorasan were transferred, with the help of certain intelligence agencies, to Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Mujahid said: “From these new centers, they carry out attacks both in Afghanistan and in other countries. In Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, they also target religious scholars and members of religious, sectarian, and political groups, and some sectors use them for their own malicious purposes.”

Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, relations between Kabul and Islamabad have become increasingly tense, often leading to border clashes.

Pakistani officials have repeatedly stated that terrorist groups, including the TTP, have used Afghan soil to threaten Pakistan’s security, but these claims have consistently been denied by the Afghan Taliban.

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