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Peshawar, Jan 22 (PTI) The Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate, dubbed Islamic State Khorasan or IS-K, posed a bigger threat to peace and integrity of Pakistan’s restive province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa than the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the provincial police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The IS-K, which has stepped up attacks in several cities in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August last year, was also responsible for carrying out a spate of terror attacks against Pakistan’s security officials in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n
I see IS-K as a bigger threat to peace and security in the province compared to the TTP in near future, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari said.<\/p>\n
In October last year, IS-K had also claimed responsibility for the killing of a well-known Sikh hakeem named Sardar Satnam Singh (Khalsa), who practised Unani medicine here in the provincial capital.<\/p>\n
At least three police personnel were killed in different parts of the province in the months of October and November.<\/p>\n
Ansari said following these sustained attacks, police had busted a cell of the IS-K in Peshawar on December 20 last year.<\/p>\n
While both TTP and IS-K were responsible for attacks on security forces in Pakistan, Ansari believed that the latter posed a great threat because when one of its cells became dysfunctional, another cell began operations.<\/p>\n
These [militant] outfits are operating in small groups and the neutralisation of one cell does not end the possibility of another cell resorting to similar acts, Ansari explained.<\/p>\n
He said that there had been security issues in North and South Waziristan tribal districts, but the security officials had acted swiftly to enforce the writ of the state.<\/p>\n
Ansari said the provincial and federal governments were focusing on development of tribal areas and creating employment opportunities for the youth.<\/p>\n
These efforts will motivate the people to support government efforts for peace, he opined.<\/p>\n
The police chief said his force had completed the training of 17,000 out of 27,000 Levies and Khasadar Force personnel in the tribal districts.<\/p>\n
The police force was working in tandem with Pakistan’s armed forces for bringing peace back in the region, Ansari added.<\/p>\n
According to a US State Department’s report, IS-K received funding from its parent organisation, the militant Islamic State group (IS), with additional funding coming from illicit criminal commerce, taxes and extortion activities.<\/p>\n
The IS-K’s leadership has pledged allegiance to the deceased IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.<\/p>\n
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