India, March 5 -- The US worked with Pakistan to capture an Islamic State-Khorasan Province leader who helped plan an attack at Kabul airport that killed 13 American troops and about 170 Afghans during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

US President Donald Trump announced the capture of IS-KP leader Mohammad Sharifullah during an address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday, when he thanked the Pakistan government for helping with the arrest. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the terrorist was caught in an operation conducted in a region on the border with Afghanistan.

The development marks the resumption of intelligence cooperation between the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakist...