New Delhi: United States, in its ‘Country Report on Terrorism 2020’, said Pakistan has made limited progress in combating terrorism and has not taken steps to prosecute terrorist leaders such as Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) founder Masood Azhar and Lashkar’s Sajid Mir, who were killed in 2008. He is the mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.
“Pakistan made limited progress on the most difficult aspects of its 2015 National Action Plan to Combat Terrorism, in particular to all terrorist organizations without delay or discrimination,” the report released by the US State Department said on Thursday. In his vow to finish.”
At the October plenary meeting of the global terror financing watchdog FATF, Pakistan was placed on the ‘grey list’ due to lack of progress on investigation and prosecution of senior leaders and commanders of terrorist groups designated by the United Nations.
The report also said that on April 2, the Sindh High Court overturned the 2002 conviction of Omar Sheikh and three co-conspirators for the 2002 kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
In its section on India, the US report states that security agencies were effective in intercepting terrorist threats, although differences in inter-agency intelligence and information sharing remain.
The report also said that as of November there were 66 Indian-origin fighters affiliated with ISIS.
“The Indian government made significant efforts to detect, disrupt and degrade the operations of terrorist organizations within its borders,” the report said.
It further said, “By the end of September, the NIA had investigated 34 terrorism cases indicating that they were related to ISIS and arrested 160 people.”
The report said major terrorist groups operating in India include Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen, ISIS, Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen.
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