ISIS to attack the Taliban during the return ceremony from Hajj.
According to the Independent, the Ministry of Interior (country) of the Taliban has warned the police commanders that the ISIS terrorist group is planning to attack officials and commanders who are returning from the Hajj ceremony.
In this written warning, it is stated that ISIS plans to assassinate Taliban officials with suicide attacks and bomb explosions, and these possible attacks must be prevented.
In this warning statement, it is mentioned: “Based on accurate intelligence information, ISIS plans to attack officials of the Islamic Emirate, governors, chiefs, and administrative and military officials who are returning from the obligatory Hajj in a number of provinces.”
In this warning, it is also stated that ISIS will carry out its attacks using crowds during Eid ceremonies.
The Ministry of Interior of the Taliban has asked all the police commanders of this group to take serious measures and report their activities and information in order to curb the possible attacks of ISIS.
Despite the claim of some Taliban officials that ISIS has been completely destroyed in Afghanistan, this group is still operating sporadically in Afghanistan. A month ago, the ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion in northern Afghanistan. In this regard, an Afghan security source said that ISIS had targeted Majlis Khatm, the deputy governor of Badakhshan province in the north of this country. Three days before that incident, Maulvi Nizar Ahmadi, the deputy governor and head of the Taliban, was killed by a suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province. In this attack that took place in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province, the deputy governor was killed along with another person. Moazuddin Ahmadi, one of the local officials in Badakhshan, announced: “In this explosion, six other people were also injured, and this incident occurred as a result of a motorcycle bomb attack in the new city of Faizabad.”
The activities and movements of the ISIS terrorist group in Afghanistan last summer, “Zabihullah Mujahid”, the spokesman of the Taliban, strongly rejected the publication of some news about the increase in the number of ISIS members in Afghanistan on his Twitter account. In this regard, Mujahid said: “The estimate of the increase of the ISIS phenomenon in Afghanistan is incorrect and far from reality.”
The Taliban spokesperson further added: “Creating concerns about ISIS’s conspiracy is propaganda for this group, which should not be done.” “The Islamic Emirate and the people of Afghanistan will not allow ISIS to establish a nest in the country.”
Mujahid has also emphasized that ISIS has been destroyed in Afghanistan and this group is disappearing.
Previously, Inamullah Samangani, one of the spokespersons of the Taliban group, said that the Taliban was successful in fighting the ISIS phenomenon and now “the ISIS phenomenon does not have a public and physical presence in any part of Afghanistan.”
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, and since then they claim to have completely secured security in the country.
