A recent report by US Department of State has highlighted that terrorists targeting India continue to operate from Pakistani terr♛itory. It further highlighted that Pakistan did not take coercive steps to stop UN-designated terrorists like Masood Azhar.
Terrorist groups targeting India continued 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, according to a latest report on terrorism by the US State Department.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken,ಌ in the 2020 Country Reports 🐷on Terrorism issued on Thursday, said that regionally, terrorist groups continued to operate from Pakistan.
“Grꦕoups targeting Afghanistan — including the Afghan Taliban and affiliated Haqqani network (HQN), as well as groups targeting India, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and itওs affiliated front organisations, and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) — continued to operate from Pakistani territory,” according to the report.
Pakistan did not take action against other known terrorists such as JeM founder and UN-d🅺esignated terrorist Azhar and 2008 Mumbai attack “project manager” Mir, both of whom are believed to remain free in Pakistan💦, the report said.
In February and again in November, a Lahore anti-terrorism court convicted Lashkar-e-Tayyiba founder Hafiz Saeed on multiple counts of terrorism f♓inancing and sentenced him to five years and six months in prison, the report noted.
It acknowledged that Pakistan made additional progress in 2020 to𒅌wards completing its Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Actioꦆn Plan, but did not complete all Action Plan items, and remained on the FATF “gray list"