PESHAWAR: The three terrorists declared by US treasury department as specially designated global terrorists (SDGT’s) are the followers of Sheikh Aminullah, who is imprisoned in Saudi Arab from last several years.
Sheikh Aminullah, who is an Afghan national but residing in Peshawar since long time runs a seminary in Ganj area of Peshawar. He travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2014 and was later on imprisoned by the Saudi government.
Sheikh Aminullah has also been put on the list of wanted terrorists by the United Nations and is associated with Jamatud Dawa. He also has links with a number of Arab hardliners who participated in the Afghan war against the former Soviet Union and later assembled Al-Qaeda.
Sources confirmed that two out of three persons declared terrorists belong to Dir region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and one is from Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. All three of them are believed to be accompanying or have accompanied or remained a host or facilitator of Sheikh Amin in Saudi Arabia.
One of the terrorists Dilawar Khan Nadir Khan belongs to Dir and had accompanied Aminullah during his stay and in other activities both in Peshawar and across the border in Afghanistan.
The second terrorist Rehman Zeb Faqir Muhammad also belongs to Dir and was staying in Saudi Arabia as an overseas worker. Afghan sources believe that there is a possibility of his meeting with Aminullah in Saudi Arabia and has, therefore, been declared a terrorist on such grounds.
Similarly, Hizbullah Astam Khan, who belongs to Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, had served Sheikh Aminullah’s Ganj Mosque and seminary as prayer caller.
Both Dilawar and Astam have been missing and according to another Afghan elder from Kunar province of Afghanistan, they have shifted either to Afghanistan or are living somewhere else with different names.