Al-Qaeda makes fresh push to revive outfit in India

Zawahari in the video takes on the Pakistan establishment. He also slams the ISIS and asks those in Syria to back the al-Qaeda.

The chief of the al-Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahari released a video clip stating that his son-in-law Abu Dujana al-Pasha was the driving force behind the setting up of the al-Qaeda in the sub-continent (AQIS).

Decribing Pasha as a martyr after he had been killed in an air strike, Zawahari said that he had united several jihadi forces in the sub-continent. Pasha is not a known name and many had referred to him as the hidden commander of the al-Qaeda.

Zawahari further states in the video clip that it is time to raise against those opposing jihad. The video widely circulated on the social media was first posted on the As-Sahab, the media arm of the terror group.

Zawahari in the video takes on the Pakistan establishment. He also slams the ISIS and asks those in Syria to back the al-Qaeda.

"Allah guided him to avail his old relationships that had been formed with the Mujahideen of the Subcontinent in training camps and fronts. Allah had given him popularity amongst them, so he directed his efforts to unite these different groups in a single organisation, and thus, with the blessing and favour of Allah, Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent was formed, under the banner of the Islamic Emirate," Zawahari also says in the clip.

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