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Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism
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Contents
Background
Allegations of state-sponsored terrorism
Inter-Services Intelligence and terrorism
Links to terrorist groups
Militant outfits about Pakistan
Sympathizing with militants
Criticism
Alleged Pakistani Army support of terrorists
Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Haqqani Network
United States
United Kingdom
Afghanistan
India
Bangladesh
International isolation
Al Qaeda leaders killed or captured in Pakistan
See also
References

Content: all these years Pakistan has been supportive to several terrorist groups despite several stern warnings from the international community." Daniel Byman, a professor and senior analyst of terrorism and security at the Center For Middle East Policy, also wrote that, "Pakistan is probably 2008's most active sponsor of terrorism". In 2018, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, suggested that the Pakistani government (see The Establishment) played a role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group. In July 2019, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, on an official visit to the United States, acknowledged the presence of some 30,000–40,000 armed terrorists operating on Pakistani soil. He further stated that previous administrations were hiding this truth, particularly from the United States, for the last 15 years during the War on Terror. The United States' State Sponsors of Terrorism designation list describes Pakistan as a "terrorist safe haven" where individual terrorists and terrorist groups are able to organize, plan, raise funds, communicate, recruit, train, transit, and operate in relative security because of inadequate/supportive governance, political will, or both. Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs during Operation Neptune Spear at his compound near the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Contents
1 Background
2 Allegations of state-sponsored terrorism
3 Inter-Services Intelligence and terrorism
4 Links to terrorist groups
4.1 Militant outfits about Pakistan
4.2 Sympathizing with militants
4.3 Criticism
5 Alleged Pakistani Army support of terrorists
6 Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa
7 Haqqani Network
8 United States
9 United Kingdom
10 Afghanistan
11 India
12 Bangladesh
13 International isolation
14 Al Qaeda leaders killed or captured in Pakistan
15 See also
16 References
Background
Until Pakistan became a key ally in the War on Terrorism, the US Secretary of State included Pakistan on the 1993 list of countries which repeatedly provide support for acts of international terrorism. In fact, many consider that Pakistan has been playing both sides in the fight against terror, on the one hand, demonstrating to help curtail terrorist activities while on the other, stoking it. Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid and author Ted Galen Carpenter have accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of providing help to the Taliban and rebels in Kashmir.