IS captures Pakistani militants

PESHAWAR: The Islamic State (IS) militant group has broadcast interviews on its FM radio channel, The Voice of Khilafat, of Pakistani militants captured by it in Afghanistan.

Those who listen to the IS radio channel said four interviews were broadcast. Those interviewed included Pakistanis who said they were members of the Towheedul Islam group from Pakistan’s Khyber Agency. They said they were captured by the IS, or Daesh fighters.

The other men who were in the IS custody said in the interview that they were Afghan Taliban aligned to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

The Voice of Khilafat also quoted IS Khurasan chapter as saying that the Afghan Taliban have launched war against it even though the IS didn’t want to fight the Taliban.