A regional branch of the Daesh terror group has claimed a deadly attack on a Taliban official in northeastern Afghanistan, a monitoring organisation SITE intelligence group said.
The head of the information and culture department in Badakhshan, Zabihullah Amiri, was shot dead on Tuesday while en route the provincial capital Faizabad.
The Daesh-Khorasan group, the chapter in Afghanistan and Pakistan, said on Wednesday it carried out the attack.
Amiri was a nephew of Amanuddin Mansur, the governor of southern Helmand province.
Afghanistan's information and culture ministry said one of the assailants was killed and a second arrested after the "cowardly attack".
The ministry "reminds the enemies of the government that such cowardly acts will never weaken our firm resolve and steadfast determination", it said on Tuesday.
Taliban officials have vowed to restore security to Afghanistan, but sporadic attacks have continued since they returned to power in 2021.
The regional branch of the Daesh terror group has claimed some of them, including an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in central Kabul that killed at least seven people in January.
The terror group also claimed responsibility for a December 2024 suicide bombing in Kabul that killed refugees minister Khalil Ur Rahman Haqqani.
