Intel agencies hunt for India contact of arrested IS jihadi

NEW DELHI: Central intelligence agencies and Delhi's anti-terror unit, special cell, have begun an informal investigation to ascertain the identity of the India-based contact of the Islamic State terrorist held in Russia and are checking whether the network being used by IS-Khorasan Province, in this case, is the same as the one used by the Afghan Abdul Rehman al Logari, an IS terrorist who was caught just a week before he was to blow himself up in Delhi in 2017, reports Rajshekhar Jha.
The Afghanistan connection stems from the interrogation of IS terrorist Azamov Mashrabkhon wherein he reveals having pledged his allegiance to the IS on the command of Yusuf Tajiki, a prominent propagandist believed to have been killed a few months ago by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Besides, only the Afghan cadres of IS have the ability to provide any logistical support to its operatives in India, an intelligence source said.