The terrorist organisation made the claim in 13th issue of its mouthpiece magazine ‘Dabiq’.
In the 13th issue of its propaganda magazine, Dabiq, Islamic State has claimed that it won’t be long before Kashmir is run over by the organisation.
The claims were made by the ‘emir of Khorasan’, Hafiz Saeed Khan in an interview to the magazine. Khan, also known as Mullah Saeed Orkazai, is an erstwhile commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and later defected to the Islamic State to become the group’s operative head in ‘Khorasan’, the region that stretches across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan and extends to parts of India and China.
“It had once been under the authority of the Muslims, along with the regions surrounding it. Afterwards, the secularist … cow-worshipping Hindus and atheist Chinese conquered other nearby regions, as is the case in parts of Kashmir and Turkistan,” said Saeed, stressing on the importance of the region in re-establishing the caliphate and expanding their territory in the eastern part.
To a question if the Islamic state was capable of expanding to Kashmir, “to fight the cow-worshiping Hindus and the apostate factions such as Lashkar-e-Taiba”, he answered that “there are specific arrangements in those regions and the Muslims will soon hear pleasant news about the caliphate’s expansion to those lands.” Hitting out against the Pakistan army for exploiting the issue of Kashmir for their personal interest, khan added “when the preservation of their interests (Pakistan Army’s) required, they ceasefire, withdraw, and retreat, the intelligence agencies left the people of Kashmir in the middle of the road and in the worst of situations. The degree of Pakistani “interests” always fluctuates back and forth, doing so especially in the last years, until the people of Kashmir hit a roadblock and there was no one to save them from the quagmire into which they were thrown. Because of this, many of the people of Kashmir and the soldiers of the factions left and made hijrah to wilayat khurasan.”
Adding that apostate factions and agents such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, do not have control over any territory in the regions of Kashmir as they followed the tug and pull of Pakistani army, he said “there’s a big opportunity … to establish the religion of Allah there (Kashmir) and for the Islamic State to expand to it.”
