In a report -- ’Enhancing security and stability in Afghanistan’ -- released this week, the Pentagon also emphasised the need for increased military collaboration between Pakistain and Afghanistan for defeating terrorism.
"The Afghanistan-Pakistain border region remains a sanctuary for various groups," claims the report, adding that they include the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), 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...
, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, the murderous Moslem Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group (ISIS-Khorasan) and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
The Pentagon identifies the AQIS as an Al Qaeda affiliate which recruits fighters from the larger South and Central Asian region, noting that it poses a direct threat to US interests in the area.
"The United States continues to be clear with Pakistain about steps it should take to improve the security environment and deny safe havens to terrorist and bully boy groups," the report said.