Afghanistan’s intelligence service has revealed on Monday 14th September 2015 that Afghan forces killed a senior Al Qaeda commander in airstrikes in the southeastern region of the country.
Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the leader of the Jundullah group, Qari Ghulam Hazrat, also known as Abu Huzaifa, was killed in an air strike coordinated by the NDS in Chardara district of Kunduz Province on August 24.
The statement said Hazrat’s deputy, Amar, and three other commanders were also killed in the air strike.
The NDS also seized laptops, a hard drive, cell phones, weapons, ammunition, bombs, and other equipment during the raid.
In another incident, at least 15 suspected Pakistani Taliban were killed early September 2015 in a deadly U.S. drone attack at the Gomal district of the southeastern Paktika province, on the border with Pakistan.
The militants belonged to the Pakistani Taliban group of Mullah Fazlullah who is on the Pakistani army’s wanted list.
US-led coalition has increased the number of drone strikes against militants, on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Jundullah, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, pledged loyalty to Islamic State (IS) militants during the first half of November 2014, partly tearing itself from Al Qaeda. Lately, Al Qaeda has declared war on the Islamic State.
