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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: 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. Allegations of state-sponsored terrorism
Author Gordon Thomas states that whilst aiding in the capture of Al Qaeda members, Pakistan "still sponsored terrorist groups in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, funding, training and arming them in their war of attrition against India". Journalist Stephen Schwartz notes that several terrorist and criminal groups are "backed by senior officers in the Pakistani army, the country's ISI intelligence establishment and other armed bodies of the state". According to Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, "Without the active support of the government in Islamabad, it is doubtful whether the Taliban could ever have come to power in Afghanistan. Pakistani authorities helped fund the militia and equip it with military hardware during the mid-1990s when the Taliban was merely one of several competing factions in Afghanistan’s civil war. Only when the United States exerted enormous diplomatic pressure after the 11 Sept. attacks did Islamabad begin to sever its political and financial ties with the Taliban.