IS pioneer bites the dust in US ramble assault: Afghan agent

IS pioneer bites the dust in US ramble assault: Afghan agent

PESHAWAR: A pioneer of the aggressor Islamic State (IS) gathering in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US ramble strike, the Afghan represetative to Pakistan said on Friday, however the American military said it couldn't affirm that. 

Assuming genuine, the demise of Hafiz Saeed Khan would strike a hit to endeavors by IS to extend its control over region and its jihadi image into Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

It would likewise check the second US killing of a noticeable aggressor in the district inside months. In May, a US ramble executed Afghan Taliban pioneer Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a strike in Balochistan. 

IS this week assumed acknowledgment for an assault on a healing facility that executed no less than 74 individuals in Quetta. A Pakistani Taliban group additionally asserted duty. 

Khan has been accounted for dead some time recently. A year ago, Afghan knowledge specialists asserted he had been slaughtered, however the report was never affirmed. 

On Friday, Afghan Ambassador Omar Zakhilwal told Reuters he had seen affirmation from Afghan security strengths on Khan's passing. 

"I can affirm that ISIS Khurasan [Afghanistan and Pakistan] pioneer Hafiz Saeed Khan alongside his senior commandants and warriors kicked the bucket in a US ramble strike on July 26 in Kot area of Afghanistan's Nangharhar territory," he said. 

US military representative Col Michael Lawhorn said American strengths in Afghanistan "know about those reports and we are investigating it" however have not yet affirmed Khan's demise.