THE ISIS boss behind the devastating Kabul suicide bombing that killed 183 people has been arrested, as President Donald Trump warned he will face the “sword of American justice”.

The bomber heinously detonated a device among packed crowds as they tried to flee Afghanistan, killing 170 Afghans and 13 US troops just days after the Taliban seized control of the capital.

On Tuesday, in his first address to Congress since returning to the White House for a second term, Trump announced that Pakistan had assisted in the arrest of “the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity.”

He added that “he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice”.

The Republican also took a swipe at his predecessor Joe Biden’s oversight of the “disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan”.

He thanked Pakistan “for helping arrest this monster” but gave no details of the suspect or the arrest operation.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the country’s security forces had arrested a man named Mohammad Sharifullah – a top commander for Islamic State Khorasan.

The United States withdrew its last troops from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021, ending a chaotic evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans who had rushed to Kabul’s airport in the hope of boarding a flight out of the country.

Images of crowds storming the airport, climbing atop aircraft — and some clinging to a departing US military cargo plane as it rolled down the runway — aired on news bulletins around the world.

In April 2023, the White House announced that an Islamic State official involved in plotting the attack at the airport’s Abbey Gate had been killed in an operation by Afghanistan’s new Taliban government.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked Trump for “acknowledging and appreciating Pakistan’s role and support” in counter-terrorism efforts in Afghanistan.

“We will continue to partner closely with the United States in securing regional peace and stability,” he wrote on social media platform X.

Pakistan’s strategic importance has waned since the US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, but militancy has rebounded in the border regions.

Islamabad accused Kabul of failing to root out militants sheltering on Afghan soil, a charge the Taliban government denies.

The regional chapter of the Islamic State group, known as the Islamic State Khorasan, has staged a growing number of bloody international attacks, including killing more than 140 at a Moscow concert hall and more than 90 in an Iranian bombing last year.

Michael Kugelman, South Asia Institute director at The Wilson Center, said on X that Pakistan was trying to “leverage US concerns about terror in Afghanistan and pitch a renewed security partnership.”

“Pakistan’s help catching the Abbey Gate attack plotter should be seen in this context,” he added.