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NEW DELHI: At a clip erstwhile Pakistan has inserted itself successful the West Asia framework and projected to presumption itself arsenic a mediator, the latest US legislature probe work (CRS) study offers a crisp world check.
It says Pakistan remains a sanctuary for a wide array of violent groups contempt decades of state-led subject offensives and strategical argumentation shifts.Despite the 2014 National Action Plan’s mandate to dismantle each equipped militias, 15 large groups proceed to run crossed 5 wide categories — globally oriented, Afghanistan-oriented, India- and Kashmir-oriented, domestically oriented, and sectarian, the study noted.Twelve of these 15 groups are designated arsenic Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs) nether US law, with astir animated by extremist ideology. The study underscores a cardinal nonaccomplishment successful dismantling these networks, noting that some US- and UN-designated violent organisations proceed to run openly connected Pakistani soil. Particular accent is placed connected India-centric groups similar Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Muhammed, which support progressive cadres of 1,500 and 500 equipped supporters, respectively.
On the determination front, Pakistan remains a basal for India-oriented groups similar Lashkar-e-Taiba (responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks), Jaish and Hizbul, which question the annexation of Kashmir.While Islamabad accuses India of backing militants successful Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — charges India denies — US officials person conversely linked the Haqqani Network, led by Afghanistan’s interior curate Sirajuddin Haqqani, to Pakistan’s ain quality services.
Despite being removed from the FATF “grey list” successful 2022, Pakistan remains designated by the US arsenic a “Country of Particular Concern” for spiritual freedom, arsenic immoderate madrassas proceed teaching doctrines which could pb to greater acceptance of extremist ideology.
From the dormant anti-Shia Sipah-e-Sahaba to the progressive Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Al Qaeda successful the Indian Subcontinent, the sheer diverseness of these outfits illustrates a multi-layered information situation that neither airstrikes nor diplomatic maneuvers person been capable to resolve, the study said.The world is further punctuated by a spike successful terrorism-linked deaths that reached 4,001 successful 2025 — highest successful 11 years. TTP remains the deadliest home threat, seeking Sharia instrumentality successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
