Terrorist groups targeting India continues to operate from Pakistan and Islamabad did not take action against other known terrorists, including JeM founder and UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar and the 2008 Mumbai attack “project manager” Sajid Mir, who remain free in that country, which is collected from the latest report on terrorism by the US State Department.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in the 2020 Country Reports on Terrorism issued, which was on Thursday, said that, terrorist groups continued to operate from Pakistan.
“Groups targeting Afghanistan — including the Afghan Taliban and affiliated Haqqani network, groups targeting India, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and its affiliated front organisations, and Jaish-e-Mohammed — continued to operate from Pakistani territory,” according to the latest report.
Pakistan did not take action against other known terrorists such as JeM founder and UN-designated terrorist Azhar and 2008 Mumbai attack “project manager” Mir, both of whom are believed to remain free in Pakistan, said the report.
In February and again in November, a Lahore antiterrorism court convicted Lashkar-e-Tayyiba founder Hafiz Saeed on multiple counts of terrorism financing and sentenced him to five years and six months in prison.
It acknowledged that Pakistan made additional progress in 2020 towards completing its Financial Action Task Force Action Plan, but did not complete all Action Plan items, and remained on the FATF list.