A month after 21 persons from Kerala went missing and are suspected to have joined the Islamic State in Afghanistan via Iran, both Tehran and Kabul have informed India that the group could not be located. The immigration records of the 21 people show that all of them had flown till Tehran, Iran’s capital, before going off the radar. Since they travelled so far as Iran, we wanted to know their mode of journey till Afghanistan. One group travelled to Tehran through Muscat and the other through Dubai. A senior NIA official said they had travelled till Iran on tourist visas.

Source: The Hindu September 11, 2016 18:27 UTC