[CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler, former counterterrorism coordinator for the UN Security Council and member of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior's “Advisory Group on Preventing and Combating Islamism,” told WELT: “In recent years, ISPK has emerged as the offshoot that is most actively attempting to carry out attacks abroad.” … Although ISPK does not control its own territory, unlike other IS provinces—such as those in West Africa—it has established itself as a robust underground structure in Afghanistan, according to Schindler. This makes ISPK one of the most active and strategically flexible offshoots of the global IS network abroad. According to US intelligence services, it is also one of the “deadliest.”