The Islamic State jihadist group has claimed responsibility for Monday’s car bombing in the Afghan city of Faizabad, which killed the Taliban-installed police chief in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
«A prominent leader of the Taliban apostate militia was killed along with other people,» said the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) in a statement published through its propaganda channels, in which it added that «thanks to Almighty God, soldiers of the caliphate were able to park and activate a car bomb» in front of the police station.
The death of the man, identified as the maulavi Abdulhaq Omar, was confirmed by sources quoted by the news portal Aamaj News and by the Afghan television channel Tolo TV, without for the moment the Taliban having reacted to the event. Sources quoted by the Afghan daily ‘Hasht e Subh’ put the death toll at three.
ISKP, which considers the Taliban as traitors to the orthodoxy of the ‘sharia’ or Islamic law and defends a much harsher interpretation, has been the target of a security campaign by the Taliban in view of their attacks.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
