Overview
- Afghan security sources confirmed the arrest of a Pakistani national, identified as Saeedullah, whose filmed confession was released by a Taliban-affiliated channel.
- In the video, he says he studied at a Peshawar madrasa he describes as linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba and received ideological instruction from a man named Osama.
- He claims to have undergone weapons and combat training in mountain areas near Quetta in Pakistan before being pushed to join ISIS-K operations in Afghanistan.
- He recounts entering Afghanistan using a fake Afghan Tazkira under the name Mohammad, crossing through Torkham to Jalalabad where he was handed to masked handlers.
- Analysts and Afghan officials renewed allegations of Pakistan-based facilitation of ISIS-K, referencing earlier claims of transfers from Karachi and Islamabad airports, while Pakistan’s perspective was not included in the cited reports.