ISLAMABAD (FNA) – A senior Pakistani politician disclosed that members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group are fighting beside the ISIL members in Syria and Iraq, receiving money from the terrorist group.
"The fighters of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are very tough and cruel similar to the ISIL terrorists and they are dispatched to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan," senior leader of Pakistan People's Party Nahid Khan told FNA on Sunday.
She disclosed that Jamat al-Ahrar, Pakistan's Taliban, Jundollah and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are all collaborators in sending terrorists to different states, specially the countries in which the ISIL is present.
"Given the large amount of financial aid sent to the militants in Syria, most of the Pakistani militias prefer the country for joining the terrorist groups," Nahid Khan said.
Militants and Pakistani security officials said in 2014 that the ISIL has contacts with the banned Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
"The top leadership of LeJ visited Saudi Arabia and met ISIL leaders at an undisclosed location at Saudi-Iraq border," one militant said at the time.
He said the meeting took place in 2013.
A leaked government memo warned in 2014 that the ISIL had recruited 10,000-12,000 terrorists inside Pakistan.