Taliban video exposes Pakistan’s hidden terror pipeline: ISIS fighter details Lashkar links | WATCH

In a major embarrassment for Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban have released a confession video of a captured ISIS fighter from Pakistan that lays bare the deep-rooted nexus between Pakistani militant networks and the Islamic State’s Khorasan branch (ISIS-K). The video, published by a channel affiliated with the Taliban’s intelligence agency, features a man identified as Saeedullah, a Pakistani national from Plarman village in Mohmand Agency, who openly admits to being radicalised, trained, and sent across the border to Afghanistan for terror operations.

“I was studying in a madrasa in Peshawar near the Tablighi Centre. The madrasa was linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba,” Saeedullah confesses in the video, directly implicating one of Pakistan’s most notorious terror outfits. He goes on to name key individuals who facilitated his indoctrination and military training. (Moneycontrol could not independently authenticate the veracity of the video.)

According to Saeedullah, a man named Osama provided ideological guidance, while he received weapons and combat training in the mountains near Quetta, Balochistan. “After completing the training, I returned to Peshawar, but months later, an operative named Nusrat urged me to join the ISIS front in Afghanistan,” he reveals.

Saeedullah further claims that when he initially refused, Nusrat forged a fake Afghan Tazkira (identity document) to smuggle him into Afghanistan disguised as a refugee. “I crossed through Torkham, reached Jalalabad, and was handed over to masked men who said, ‘This is our brother from Pakistan,’” he recounts.

The confession also sheds light on the extensive use of Pakistan’s territory for recruiting and training militants before they are deployed for jihad in Afghanistan. Saeedullah admits to working alongside around 20 foreign fighters in Afghanistan before being captured by the Taliban. In the video, he expresses remorse and pledges allegiance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate.