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Indian police have arrested four people on charges of joining ISIS in Afghanistan

12 Jun 2023 - 9:25

Indian police said; He arrested four people who were planning to join ISIS in Afghanistan. According to the files that came into the hands of the Indian police, it was said that these people had decided to participate in suicide attacks in Afghanistan.


Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Based on the files it obtained, the Indian police announced that these suspects were going to participate in suicide attacks in Afghanistan, and the head of the Khorasan branch of Daesh in pre-recorded audio files, their "testimony". congratulated and wished them success in their mission.
 
The Indian Express newspaper reported that the anti-terrorism branch of Gujarat Police arrested three people named Obaid Nasir Mir, Hanan Hayat Shall and Muhammad Hajim Shah, who are from Srinagar in Kashmir, on Saturday 20th of June (June 10). A woman is also seen among those arrested, whose name is Sombrabanu and she is from Surat, one of the districts of Gujarat state.
 
Deepan Bhadran, an Indian police official, added that the men have been accused of accompanying and supporting a banned group, among other charges.
 
On the other hand, Vikas Sahai, Director General of Gujarat Police, announced in a press conference on Saturday that the accused planned to leave India from the coast of Porbandar and go to Afghanistan through Iran and join the Khorasan branch of the ISIS group there.
 
According to the announcement of the Gujarat Police, by checking the belongings of these accused, including their mobile phones, numerous pictures of these people with the banners and flags of the ISIS group were obtained. In the statement of the Indian Gujarat Police, it is said: "We obtained video and audio clips containing the oath of allegiance of the accused to Amir al-Momenin [the leader of the Khorasan branch of ISIS] and documents about their trip to Khorasan."
 
In the pre-recorded files congratulating these defendants on their martyrdom, the head of the ISIS Khorasan branch mentions the leader of these people, who radicalized them, as Abu Hamzah.
 
A statement from India's Gujarat Police Anti-Terrorism Squad added: "The accused had apparently ordered Abu Hamza to go to Porbandar and work as a laborer on a fishing boat there. They were supposed to use this boat to reach a pre-determined geographical coordinates to be transferred to Iran. "According to the obtained documents, they were given fake passports to reach Herat through Khorasan."
 
This is despite the fact that in the latest case, the responsibility of two deadly attacks last week in Badakhshan province was taken by the ISIS group. In these two attacks, including the deputy governor of Badakhshan and the former security commander of Baghlan province, a large number of soldiers and civilians died.
 


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