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KOZHIKODE: Efforts are on to trace down the remaining Malayali Islamic State (IS) male cadre, whilst India debates the professionals and cons of bringing again the Malayali lady IS members who surrendered and at the moment are lodged in Kabul jail. Although the precise variety of Malayalis who joined IS and did hijra (migration) to different nations shouldn’t be recognized, it’s estimated there could possibly be 60 such individuals, together with ladies and youngsters.
Of them, not less than 4 Malayalis are believed to be nonetheless alive in Afghanistan and Syria. Ashfaq Majeed and Sajid, each from Padanna in Kasaragod, had been within the group that left Kerala to affix IS in Nangahar province of Afghanistan in Might and June 2016. The 17-member group, which included ladies and youngsters, was led by Rashid Abdulla, an worker of Peace Worldwide Faculty, Kozhikode. After the dying of Rashid and others, the ladies and youngsters had surrendered earlier than safety forces in Afghanistan final yr and are at the moment in a Kabul jail. Indian intelligence businesses have interrogated Fathima alias Nimisha, Mariyam alias Merine, Ayesha alias Sonia Sebastian and Ruffeila within the jail.
They’ve confirmed the dying of all males within the group besides Ashfaq and Sajid. Each had been in touch with acquaintances in Kerala until March 2020. The killing of Malayalis within the assaults on a gurudwara in Kabul and a jail in Jalalabad was communicated to some media homes in Kerala in 2020 by way of the Telegram app from the account of 1 Abu Bara. Intelligence businesses suspect Abu could possibly be both Ashfaq or Sajid as different Malayalis had been killed by then.
There have been unconfirmed stories that Ashfaq had surrendered and is now in some jail in Afghanistan. There is no such thing as a info on Sajid since April, 2020. Within the preliminary phases, the ‘martyrdoms’ of the IS cadre in Afghanistan and Syria had been promptly conveyed by different cadre to the family in Kerala by way of varied social media platforms.
Nonetheless, because the Malayali members bought killed one after the other, the communication mechanism collapsed, making it tough to determine what number of had been nonetheless alive. Moreover the teams that left for Afghanistan, there have been those who joined IS in Syria. They primarily comprised natives of Kannur. Amongst them, one Suhail from Valapattanam is believed to have surrendered and is now in a jail in Syria. Hashir, a local of Paravur who’s believed to have joined the fear outfit Jabhat Al-Nusra in Syria in 2015, is suspected to be alive.
