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US says Pakistan failed to act against Taliban, Haqqani Network
 [DAWN] The United States has once again accused Pakistain of not taking significant action against the bad boy outfits and accusing them of operating from "Pakistain-based safe havens" to threaten the US and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.The US State Department, in its annual "Country Reports on Terrorism 2016" released on Wednesday, said Islamabad has failed to take significant action to constrain the ability of the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... and Haqqani Network to operate from "Pakistain-based safe havens". It mentioned the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani Network, Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LT), and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JM) as "groups located in Pakistain, but focused on conducting attacks outside the country". The report accused that the government did not take any significant action against Jaish-e-Muhammad (JM) or Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT), "other than implementing an ongoing ban against media coverage of their activities". "LT and JM continued to hold rallies, raise money, recruit, and train in Pakistain," it maintained. "The government has not joined the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, although it designated ISIS as a terrorist organization in 2015. Police and security forces detained and killed a substantial number of ISIS-affiliated terrorists," the report said. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-20 |
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