Members of the Afghan wing of the “Islamic State” – “Wilayat Khorasan” are hiding in several countries in Asia, said Suhail Shaheen, head of the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, commenting on reports of the organization’s involvement in the terrorist attack at the “Krokus City Hall”.
As previously reported by RIA Novosti, a source familiar with the situation stated that those who carried out the attack were recruited through the Telegram channel “Voice of Khorasan”, which belongs to the Afghan wing of the “IS”. According to him, the channel, which has now been deleted, was managed from Afghanistan by the terrorists of “Wilayat Khorasan”.
“It is possible that some members of ‘Wilayat Khorasan’ are in Afghanistan, but you know that the territory of the conditional Khorasan is not only Afghanistan; it also includes Pakistan, India, Iran, and Central Asia. Right now, they are hiding outside of Afghanistan, and not all of them are citizens of Afghanistan,” Shaheen said.