Pakistan, May 30 -- The Vilayat Khorasan branch of the Islamic State is actively recruiting people from CIS member states into terrorist structures, reinforcing the reality that Afghanistan under Taliban rule is no longer merely conflict zone but emerging launchpad for terrorist recruitment, radicalization and transnational operations.

"Vilayat Khorasan is actively recruiting militants from other terrorist organizations now, supporters from citizens of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, as well as migrant workers in Russia," Director of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services.

He said that conspiracy terrorist net...