 [ToloNews] Ahmad, a commander of NDS special forces, who led the operation to arrest Aslam Farooqi, the leader of the Khorasan branch of ISIS, said the operation was the most complex and precise operation he had carried out in his seven years of duty.
Ahmad, a 26-year-old NDS commander, said he and his subordinates originally intended to arrest an explosives and weapons supplier named Shah Wali who was active in Kandahar, but Ahmad said his (Shah Wali's) arrest opened the way for further successive operations in Kandahar.
"Our operation lasted six days and nights, and we carried out twelve operations and we carried them slowly because they (enemies) had moved to civilian areas," added Ahmad.
Ahmad said that during their second operation in Kandahar, he and his associates found that they were closer to Aslam Farooqi, the leader of the Khorasan branch of ISIS, than ever before, and that they would reach him if they proceeded cautiously.
"An operation was carried out in four or five parts of the city (in one of the southern provinces), and Aslam Farooqi was in one of the districts when we arrested him," Ahmad added.
Abdullah Orakzai, also known as Aslam Farooqi, was a resident of Akhondzadagan village of Orakzai agency, which is located in the tribal areas of Pakistain.
In addition to leading the Khorasan branch of ISIS, Farooqi also carried out responsibilities such as recruiting ISIS in Pakistain and running international communications for the Khorasan branch of ISIS.
After the peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
, only two major terrorist attacks took place in Kabul - one was an attack on a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party, in which thirty-two people died, and the other was an attack on the Sikh’s shrine in Kabul, which killed twenty-six people. Both attacks were claimed by ISIS.
"There is a real ISIS that is in contact with Syria and Iraq, and a second ISIS that originally operated under the umbrella of the real ISIS in some provinces and districts. Perhaps the information about this person (Aslam Farooqi), was given to the Afghan cops by another ISIS group," said Khan Agha Rezaie, a parliament member.
"The arrest of Aslam Farooqi is a major achievement for the government and national security forces; it means that ISIS has been defeated in Afghanistan," said Jawed Safai, a member of parliament.
Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadem, Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Abdul Haseeb Pashtun-infested Logari and Abu Saeed Bajuri were the ISIS leaders who were killed between 1393 and 1397 (solar years) in government forces operations in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province. 
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