Daesh funds militants in KP

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Peshawar, Oct 6 (TNS): Militants of the notorious Islamic State (Daesh) group have been receiving financial assistance from inside Peshawar as well as across the border, revealed a startling report on Friday.

According to the report, families of the terrorist outfit’s slain commanders and foot soldiers received monetary aid from various religious factions and influential Afghan traders in the province.

The militants had been killed in various military operations or spending jail terms in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Daesh, it said, had formed a collective fund with the purpose to make financial aid available to their cadres. The report went on to add that even the family of a former commander and other militants received cash grant, sacrificial meat on the second day of Eid-ul-Azha.

The organisation has also hired a local expert and established a media cell in the provincial capital.