In a major embarrassment for Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban have released a confession video of a captured ISIS fighter from Pakistan that lays bare the deep-rooted nexus between Pakistani militant networks and the Islamic State’s Khorasan branch (ISIS-K). The video, published by a channel affiliated with the Taliban’s intelligence agency, features a man identified as Saeedullah, a Pakistani national from Plarman village in Mohmand Agency, who openly admits to being radicalised, trained, and sent across the border to Afghanistan for terror operations.

“I was studying in a madrasa in Peshawar near the Tablighi Centre. The madrasa was linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba,” Saeedullah confesses in the video, directly implicating one of Pakistan’s most notorious terror outfits. He goes on to name key indi

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