A Sawab Center study on Daesh-Khorasan (Daesh-K) offers one of the clearest examinations yet of how a group born from the militant ecosystems of Afghanistan and Pakistan has developed an influence far beyond its geographic origins.

“Daesh” is a derogatory Arabic acronym for the terrorist outfit formally known as the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP or ISIS-K). Khorasan refers to a geographical region spanning parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and the five post-Soviet states of Central Asia.

While the report is global in scope, its findings point repeatedly to a central truth: the organisation’s evolution cannot be understood without understanding its South Asian foundations. Its ideological frameworks, recruitment pipelines, operational habits, and propaganda grammar all draw from the

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