Afghan Islamic State after Baghdadi
The HinduOn October 26, the U.S. announced that the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed, in an apparent suicide detonation during a raid at his house in Idlib, Syria. “While the larger ideology of the group has managed to find some in-roads into the radicalised segments in Afghanistan, the lack of a nationalist sentiment, such as that offered by the Taliban, has prevented it from growing stronger,” according to Omar Sadr, Assistant Professor at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. A segment of policy analysts proposed that the ISKP was manufactured or contracted out by an intervention of ISI in Pakistan and some other countries,” Mr. Sadr told The Hindu. It is also possible that many will revert back to their original activities or other groups they were aligned with,” Hussain Ehsani, a senior researcher at the Kabul-based Afghan Institute of Strategic Studies, told The Hindu, adding that this lack of leadership and chaos could also pave the way for another jihadist organisation to take its place. “For example, in the case of Osama bin Laden, after his death, al-Qaeda grew weak, while a new, resurgent IS emerged as a stronger terrorist group.” Both analysts agreed that there was an urgent need to target the roots of radicalisation to ensure that the ISKP is defeated.
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