Washington: Terrorist groups targeting India continue to carry out their activities from Pakistani soil. Pakistan has supported Jaish-e-Mohammed founder and United Nations designated terrorist Masood Azhar and the “projects” of the 2008 Mumbai attacks (26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks). No action has been taken against other terrorists including the manager “Sajid Mir”.
This has been said in a new report released by the US State Department on terrorism. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in the Country Report 2020 on Terrorism released on Thursday that regionally terrorist groups are carrying out their activities from Pakistan. According to the report, “groups targeting Afghanistan, including the Afghan Taliban and its affiliated Haqqani network, as well as other terrorist groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and its affiliates targeting India and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)”. has continued its work from Pakistani soil.”
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The report said that Pakistan did not take any action against other wanted terrorists like JeM founder and UN-designated terrorist Azhar and Mir, the “project manager” of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. It is believed that both Azhar and Mir are roaming freely in Pakistan. In February and again in November, an anti-terrorism court in Lahore convicted Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed on multiple charges of financing terrorism and sentenced him to five-and-a-half years’ imprisonment, it said.
The report said that Pakistan made additional progress towards completing the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) action plan in 2020 but did not complete all of the action plans and remained on the FTF’s “grey list”. Has happened.