Killing of ISIS-K Emir demonstrates Afghan resolve in fight against terrorism: ARG

Deputy presidential spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazwi in a statement said the killing of ISIS Khurasan emir, Abu Syed Orakzai, demonstrates the Afghan government’s resolve in the fight against terrorism.
Informed sources in the National Directorate of Security said the ISIS Khurasan emir, identified as Saad Arhabi, was killed in Khogyani district on Saturday night.
The sources further added that Arhabi, also famous as Abu Syed Orakzai, was killed along with nine other ISIS group members who were accompaying him.
According to the sources, the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Jungle village of Khogyani district.
The provincial governor’s spokesman, Ataullah Khogyani, also confirmed the killing of Saad Arhabi and said he was originally a resident of Orakzai Agency and appointed as the ISIS Khurasan emir after the killing of Haseeb Logari.
The anti-government armed militant and terrorist groups including ISIS Kurasan loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.