Afghan-Pakistan ISIL’s Hafiz Saeed Khan killed

The leader of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a US drone strike, US and Afghan officials have confirmed.

The leader of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a US drone strike, US and Afghan officials have confirmed.

Hafiz Saeed Khan, ISIL’s Khorasan Province leader, was killed in Kot district of Afghanistan’s Nangharhar province, according to Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, the top Afghan diplomat in Pakistan.

Zakhilwal told Reuters news agency on Friday that Hafiz Saeed Khan’s senior commanders and fighters were also killed in the drone strike.

The so-called Khorasan Province was created by ISIL, also known as ISIS, in 2015 encompassing areas in Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia.