Pakistan's former interior minister Rehman Malik claims presence of Islamic State militants in country

 Pakistan's former interior minister Rehman Malik has said that the Islamic State militant group is present in the country and that Yousuf Salfi is leading it.

He claimed that security personnel had arrested many IS militants in different parts of the country during raids, reported Dawn News. Malik said that he had his own sources of gathering information and that some sources provided him information regarding IS' presence in the country.

Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had earlier denied that the militants group is present in Pakistan. A police probe into wall chalking was carried out around areas near Karachi and in Taxila where flags of the IS militant group were fixed to electricity poles near the Pakistan Ordinance Factories (POF).