Shahab al-Muhajir
Sanaullah Ghafari (; born October 28, 1994), better known under his nom de guerre, Shahab al-Muhajir () is an Afghan terrorist, serving as the Emir of the Islamic State's Khorasan Province since 2020. Early life 
Ghafari was born to a family of merchants near the Shakardara district of Kabul, his family reportedly migrated from India to Afghanistan. He received religious education from the Ghaffari Madrassa in Kabul, and obtained an engineering degree at Kabul University. He worked as a sub-contractor of a security company and frequented Bagram Airfield. He was a special guard of then First Vice Presidents Abdul  Rashid Dostum and Amrullah Saleh, and had a license to transfer weapons since 2017. Militant career 
He reportedly joined the Haqqani network between 2010 and 2012, and became a mid-level operative until his defection in 2015. The Taliban denies that Ghafari was a member of the Haqqani network. In April 2020, Ghafari was named emir and head of operations of IS-K. He is also reportedly the first non-Afghan or non-Pakistani national to be named emir of IS-K.

After the 2021 Kabul airport attack masterminded by Ghafari, the Taliban announced that they would take every possible measure to capture him. Alleged death 
On June 6, 2023, the Taliban's General Directorate of Intelligence reportedly began a "grand operation" against IS-K in the Sirkanay District of Kunar Province with at least 3 hideouts destroyed and 14 IS-K members killed. The operation's objective was to kill or capture Ghafari and IS-K spokesman Sultan Aziz Azzam after an intelligence tip-off. Pakistani media reported Ghafari's death on June 9 under "mysterious circumstances", citing Afghan and Pakistani intelligence officials. The reports were confirmed by Voice of America, citing Afghan sources. A Taliban spokesman stated that the reports could not be confirmed. References 

1994 births
Afghan people of Indian descent
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Afghanistan
Leaders of Islamic terror groups
Living people