In February and again in November, an anti-terrorism court in Lahore convicted Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed on multiple counts of terror financing and sentenced him to five years and six months in prison, the report said. .
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- Antony Blinken said that regularly, terrorist groups continued to operate from Pakistan.
- The report said that terrorist groups targeting India continued to operate from Pakistan.
- Pakistan did not act against other known terrorists like Masood Azhar and Sajid Mir.
Terrorist groups targeting India continued to operate from Pakistan and Islamabad did not act against other known terrorists, including Jaish founder and UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar and the 2008 Mumbai attacks “project manager” Sajid Mir. who live free in that country. For a latest report on terrorism by the US State Department.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in the 2020 Country Reports on Terrorism released on Thursday that regionally, terrorist groups continue to operate from Pakistan.
“Groups targeting Afghanistan – including the Afghan Taliban and the allied Haqqani Network (HQN), as well as groups targeting India, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its affiliated front organizations, and Jaish-e-Taiba (LeT) Mohammad (JeM) – continued to operate from Pakistani territory,” as per the report.
The report said that Pakistan did not act against other known terrorists such as Jaish founder and UN-designated terrorist Azhar and the 2008 Mumbai attack “project manager” Mir, both of whom are believed to be independent in Pakistan. .
In February and again in November, an anti-terrorism court in Lahore convicted Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed on multiple counts of terror financing and sentenced him to five years and six months in prison, the report said. .
It acknowledged that Pakistan made additional progress toward completing its Financial Action Task Force (FATF) action plan in 2020, but did not complete all action plan items, and remained on the FATF’s “grey list”.
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