NAJIBULLAH QURAISHI:

Well, when I heard first about ISIS in Afghanistan, then I started contacting the people who used to work for me. I mean some local journalists.

And then we found some villages and elders. So, through the elders, we send a message out to them, to their leader. I mean ISIS commander in Afghanistan. I asked them if they allow me to film them about their presence in Afghanistan.

So, then they told to the villages of the people I sent over to wait. So, I was waiting for almost eight — or over eight months, until they called us in. And they said, come, and we're ready to be filmed.

So I was excited that I am going to meet them or filming them about their daily life, or at least I would expose them, what they are doing there.

And the other side of my life was my family, my wife, my children. To be honest, this was kind of 50/50. I was, like, 50 percent hope that I would come back again and 50 percent I wasn't.

To expose such kind of stories, it's always dangerous. It's always — there is a risk. But we have to tell the story. If not, then who shall tell?