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Terror pact: ISKP, AQIS divide India into ‘zones of operation’
The Political and Business Daily
|September 05, 2025
THE Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) and the Al Qaeda in the Sub-Continent (AQIS) were both launched in Afghanistan with the sole intention of creating havoc in the region.
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While the AQIS came into existence in 2014, the ISKP was formed a year later. It was presumed that the focus of these terror groups would be in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
This story is from the September 05, 2025 edition of The Political and Business Daily.
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