NEW DELHI: In a first, Afghanistan has deported an alleged ISIS sympathiser from Kerala, Nashidul Hamzafar, who along with 14 other youths had gone to join the terror organisation, officials said.
They said he was taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on arrival from Kabul.
“Nashidul was detained by Afghan security agencies last year for illegally entering the country to join his associates in proscribed terrorist organisation ISIS/Daish,” the agency’s spokesperson said in a statement.
It is the first extradition of alleged ISIS sympathiser from Afghanistan, the officials said.
It is alleged that Hamzafar, a resident of Kasaragod in Kerala, along with his associates, had left the country on October 3, 2017 and travelled to Muscat, Oman before travelling to Iran and further reaching Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was detained. (AGENCIES)
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