By Shahid Shah

ISLAMABAD (TSAT): The terrorists organisation ISIS also known as Daesh and ISIS-Khorasan is now threatening journalists following huge loss in recent fight with Taliban in eastern and northern Afghanistan.

 According to officials, the terrorist group recently issued life threat to a prominent Pakistani journalist Islamuddin Sajid who covers the region for international media.

Sajid, regional chief correspondent of the Turkish global news agency, Anadolu Agency, for Asia-Pacific has exposed the new plan of the terror group to hiring jobless Afghan youth to strengthen its position against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The local police in Takhat Bhai, northwestern Mardan district has registered report against the Sultan Aziz Azzam, the so-called spokesman of the terrorist group for issued life threat to Sajid over his report.

According to report the Daesh so-called spokesman called Sajid after he filed a story on the group new move to hire jobless Afghans and established their training camps and hideouts in eastren Kunar province.

The story raised by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi during the OIC Foreign Ministers meeting in Islamabad in December 2021. 

Pakistan top leaders warned that Daesh posed a new threat for the region and it could become a big threat for all neighors of Afghanistan.

Earlier, the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid during his interview with Anadolu Agency said that since August, Taliban fighters have destroyed 25 hideouts of the ISIS in Kabul and Jalalabad and arrested over 670 Daesh terrorists.

“I had filed report for my news agency about the growing threat of ISIS-K in the region and they now threatening me to why I had reported over its presence in Kunar province,” Sajid told to journalists.

“I am covering this region from last 20 years for different national and international organisations,” he added.

In 2009, the TTP, a terrorist group of Pakistani Taliban also had carried out attack on Sajid house in his native village of Maidan Dir Lower and injured his brother and sister.

While in 2012, TTP again targeted him in Mardan district but he survived in that attack.

Pakistani journalists community has demanded the government to provide security to Sajid and condemned the terror groups for always threatening and targeting journalists in the region.