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At least 14 Kerala residents are said to be a part of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) terror group that took the responsibility for suicide bombing attacks at Kabul airport. The number of deaths from the suicide bombings was somewhere around 170, including 13 US soldiers.

According to a Hindustan Times report, the 14 Keralites were among the terrorists and militants freed by the Taliban from Bagram jail. As of now, unconfirmed reports state that two Pakistani residents were detained by the Sunni Pashtun terrorist group for trying to blow off an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) device outside Turkmenistan embassy in Kabul on August 26. And as intelligence reports indicate, an IED was recovered from the two Pakistani nationals soon after the Kabul airport blast.

It is understood that one out of the 14 Keralites contacted his home in the southern state, while the remaining 13 are still at large in Kabul with the ISKP terrorist group. After the so-called Islamic State of Syria and Levant occupied Mosul in 2014, batches of Keralites from the Malappuram, Kasaragod and Kannur districts left India to escape the land of Kafirs and join the jihadist group in the Middle East. Out of this, some families came down to Nangarhar province in Afghanistan to settle under the ISKP. 

The government of India is worried that the Taliban will use these Keralites to tarnish India’s reputation by using terrorism in Afghanistan. 

 While India is worried that the Taliban and their handlers will use these radicalised Keralites to besmirch Indian reputation by indulging in acts of terror in Afghanistan, there are very credible reports coming about the detention of two Pakistanis who were trying to conduct a blast outside the Turkmenistan embassy. The Taliban are for obvious reasons tight-lipped about the entire incident but intelligence reports indicate that an improvised explosive device was recovered from these Pakistani nationals soon after the Kabul airport blast on August 26. Given that Pakistan along with the UK was involved in the US cutting out a deal with the Taliban, the incident appears to have been drowned in the mayhem after the airport attack. HT online has no independent means of confirmation.