INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
As many as 59 Daesh members have laid down their arms recently in Afghanistan&s eastern Nangarhar province, local authorities said on
Tuesday.Mohammad Idrees, head of Nangarhar intelligence department, said that the militants had been operating in Chaparhar, Surkhrod,
Khogyani, Lalpura, Achin and Spin Ghar districts.The former militants said they regretted joining Daesh, and will never return.I have spent
I no longer work with them
I have surrendered to the Islamic Emirate, and I am ready to serve them,& said Najibullah, a former Daesh member.They were oppressing
people, and we regretted joining them after looking at their oppression,& said Alauddin, a fomer Daesh member.I was a member of Daesh, and
now I have surrendered to the Islamic Emirate
I will never join them again,& said Gulzar Khan, a former Daesh member.Local elders also warned of consequences if those surrendered return
to Daesh.They have been warned that if they return to Daesh, their houses will be torched, their assets will be seized and they will be
expelled from the country,& said Malik Zahid, a tribal elder in Nangarhar.Around 650 Daesh members have surrendered since the Islamic
Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) took over the country in August last year.The post Dozens of Daesh members surrender in Nangarhar first
