ISLAMABAD, Dec 31 (Asia Free Press): Terrorists organisation ISIS also known as Daesh and ISIS-Khorasan is now threatening journalists following huge loss in recent fight with Taliban in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to officials, the terrorist group recently issued life threat to a prominent Pakistani journalist Islamuddin Sajid who covers the region for international media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sajid, regional chief correspondent of the Turkish global news agency, Anadolu Agency, for Asia-Pacific has recently reported on the terrorist group move to hiring jobless Afghans to strengthen its foot in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The local police in Takhat Bhai, northwestern Mardan district has registered report against the Sultan Aziz Azzam, the so-called spokesman of the terrorist group for issued life threat to Sajid over his report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this month, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that since August, Taliban fighters have destroyed 25 hideouts of the ISIS in Kabul and Jalalabad and arrested over 670 Daesh terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had filed report for my news agency about the growing threat of ISIS-K in the region and they now threatening me to why I had reported over its presence in Kunar province,\u201d Sajid told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am covering this region from last 20 years for different national and international organisations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2009, the TTP, a terrorist group of Pakistani Taliban also had carried out attack on Sajid house in his native village of Maidan Dir Lower and injured his brother and sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While in 2012, TTP again targeted him in Mardan district but he survived in that attack.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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