Kerala Deportee Reveals IS Secrets
The Hindu|November 12, 2018

He illegally entered Afghanistan

Vijaita Singh
Kerala Deportee Reveals IS Secrets

In 2013, when his best friend copied the speeches of radical Yemeni-American preacher Anwar Awlaki on his laptop computer, Nashidul Hamzafar did not realise that they would play a key role in motivating him to travel to Afghanistan to join the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP).

In September this year, Hamzafar, 26, a resident of Kerala, became the first Indian ever to be deported by Afghanistan for entering the country illegally to join the ISKP. He was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) soon after he returned.

His friend Shihas was among the 21 men, women and children from Kerala who had left for Afghanistan via Iran to live in the IS controlled territory in 2016. Mainly comprising defectors from the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), the Wilayat Khorasan of the Islamic State in Afghanistan came into existence in 2015. Agencies suspect that this outfit is backed by Pakistan's InterServices Intelligence (ISO.

According to Hamzafar, Shihas works for the media team of the ISKP and another friend Ashfaq is in charge of hijra (migration).

Hamzafar's interrogation revealed a well oiled network of ISKP in Iran and Afghanistan that helped willing recruits to travel to the Nangarhar province, the stronghold of the terrorist outfit.

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