DUSHANBE, April 12, 2016, Asia-Plus – The acting provincial governor of northern Balkh province of Afghanistan Ata Mohammad Noor has warned that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group is rapidly expanding activities in Afghanistan, Khaama News reported on April 12.

Noor was speaking during a ceremony for the inauguration of a high school in Mazar-e-Sharif city, the capital of Balkh province.

He said the terror group is getting stronger each day and its members are deployed in Afghanistan to destabilize the country.

Noor further added that the loyalists of the terror group are now active in major parts of Afghanistan and it would be wrong to concentrate on Kunar and Nangarhar only as the stronghold of the terror group.

This comes as a top Russian official earlier made a similar comment regarding the terror group in Afghanistan and said the terrorist group is acting quietly in the country as it plans to use Afghanistan for wider expansion.

Zamir Kabulov, the Russian president’s envoy for Afghanistan, said the loyalists of the group are expanding in Afghanistan and the group wishes to use the country as a “springboard for a wider expansion.”

Kabulov further added that Daesh has fewer militants than Taliban, but it does not spend its resources on fighting Afghan and US servicemen in the country.

“They have other aims. They need Afghanistan as a springboard for a wider expansion,” Kabulov explained.