Taliban releases video of Pak ISIS fighter detailing Lashkar-linked training

The Afghan Taliban have released a confession video of a captured ISIS fighter from Pakistan, exposing cross-border recruitment, terror training, and infiltration routes allegedly linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

The video, released by a channel affiliated with the Taliban’s intelligence agency, features Saeedullah, a Pakistani national from Plarman village in Mohmand Agency, detailing how he was radicalised and trained in terror camps before crossing into Afghanistan for operations with ISIS-K.

“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, naming key figures involved in ideological indoctrination and training.

He claims that a man named Osama provided ideological instruction while he underwent weapons and combat training in the mountains near Quetta, Balochistan. After completing the training, Saeedullah said he returned to Peshawar, but months later, an operative named Nusrat urged him to join the ISIS front in Afghanistan.

“When I refused, Nusrat made me a fake Afghan Tazkira (identity document) and sent me to Afghanistan posing as a refugee,” Saeedullah says. “I crossed through Torkham, reached Jalalabad, and was handed over to masked men who said, ‘This is our brother from Pakistan.’”

The captured militant also described working alongside around 20 foreign fighters in Afghanistan before expressing remorse and pledging allegiance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate.

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