On the basis of the recent UN report saying that terror outfits of Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar are using Afghan soil for terror activities, India is ready to mount fresh attack on Pakistan over terrorism at the United Nations and other global forums. The point that India is going to make before the global community is that if Pakistan-based terror organisations Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) continue to operate their training camps in Afghanistan, as revealed in the UN report, then Islamabad should also be held responsible for the same, sources told The Daily Guardian Review. “These groups are finding oxygen from those (state and non-state actors) sitting in Pakistan. So, Pakistani leadership cannot escape the responsibility, sources added.
Officials discussing this issue at the various levels in MEA and MHA are of the view that the growing activities of these outfits on Afghan soil as disclosed by the UN report also expose Pakistan’s ‘soft corner for, and inaction against’ LeT and JeM. “What is suggested is that Pakistan’s security agencies and Army did not take any action so far to wipe out or contain these outfits which are getting active in Afghanistan where Taliban is said to be complicit in these activities. Terror groups like LeT and JeM are being guided and backed from Pakistan’s soil, as aides of Hafiz Saeed and Masood are, according to US intelligence reports, still quite active,” sources said.
Pakistan should not be allowed to use revelation about the presence of the terror groups in Afghanistan to divert the focus of the global community from the terror havens in its own territo
ries,” officials say. “There is every possibility that Islamabad will resort to some ploys in a bid to shift world’s focus to terrorism in Afghanistan. But India is cautious and active enough to continue to keep focus on flourishing terror infrastructure in Pakistan. With this in view, Indian diplomats will at an appropriate time raise this issue at the UN, highlighting the revelations by the report of this global forum,” officials said.
The UN report recently said that Pakistan-based terror groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed led by Masood Azhar and Lashkar-e-Taiba, led by 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, maintain their training camps in some provinces of Afghanistan and some of them are directly under the Taliban control.
The 13th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team cites a UN Member State as saying that Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Deobandi group ideologically closer to the Taliban maintains eight training camps in Nangarhar, three of which are directly under Taliban control.
India›s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti, in his capacity as Chair of the Taliban Sanctions Committee, also known as the 1988 Sanctions Committee, transmitted the report to be “brought to the attention of the members of the Security Council and issued as a document of the Council.”