Mohammad Shafi Armar, the head recruiter of Islamic State (IS) in India, died in a US drone strike in Syria, according to a report in Times of India.
Shafi had reportedly become confidant of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was helping spreading terror group’s network in India. He had recruited at least thirty men for the group. According to 23 ISIS recruits arrested by the NIA in last one year, Shafi, a native of Bhatkal in Karnataka, had planned to establish an ISIS unit in every state in India.
Recently, Shafi had formed Junud al Khalifa-e-Hind by dismantling the Ansar-ul-Tauhid (AuT), a subsidiary of banned terror group Indian Mujahideen.
Shafi’s elder brother Sultan Armar, who was heading the outfit’s India franchise till 2015, was killed in March last year while fighting alongside the ISIS in Syria.