The Relevance Of Aslam Farooqui’s Arrest – Analysis

By Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy*

On April 4, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) announced that Aslam Farooqui, the chief of the Islamic State ‘Khorasan Province’ (ISKP) had been arrested in Kandahar, Afghanistan, along with 19 others, including two key commanders. Given Farooqui’s background, i.e. his...