kabul islamic state on monday released an audio tape it said was of the movements leader for afghanistan raising doubts over whether he was killed in a us drone strike on friday according to afghan intelligence agency hafez saeed was killed late on friday in the achin district of nangarhar province late on friday achin fell to fighters loyal to saeed last month after heavy clashes with taliban militants a former taliban commander saeed switched allegiance to the middle east based movement last year raising the iss black banner and declaring a province of khorasan covering afghanistan and pakistan the audio recording posted on iss arabic website could not be independently verified and it was unclear from the content when it was recorded is figures have been targets for us drone strikes which killed three other is commanders in the same area in a week using the local pashto language the speaker on the tape said the is movements goal to implement sharia islamic law reuters