KARACHI – A detained militant of Daesh, a terrorist group, made startlingrevelations about use of social networking applications by the bannedoutfit to keep in touch with members globally.
Shaikh Muhammad Imran alias Saiful Islam Khilafati, who was arrested by theFederal Investigation Agency (FIA) last week in Karachi, revealed that thegroup allegedly used Telegram, a cloud-based texting app, to share audiomessages throughout the world.
He claimed that WhatsApp groups were also used by the terrorist outfit inorder to remain connected with militants in other parts of the world.
Officials citing suspect said that a chatting group goes by the name of‘Kaddu’ and it is handled by a terrorist known as “Baba Jani”.
They added that Khilafati had also links with Nasim Shah, an extremist ofDaesh, who was killed during an encounter in Lahore.
The suspect revealed that Shah had brainwashed Noreen Leghari, a MBBSstudent of a Jamshoro University. Leghari, who had joined the terroristgroup, was arrested during the Lahore encounter.
Further, as per the officials, Khilafati was specifically trained in theusage of the black net (darknet), proxies, and virtual private networks(VPN), Geo News reported.
Earlier, the suspect told the investigators that the social media networkof the group, operated from an unknown place near the Pak-Afghan borderarea, was being strengthened inside Pakistan.