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Tue, 05/31/2011 - 21:38
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Five type of militant groups operate from Pak,one specifically

(PTI) Pakistan is home to a large
number of militant outfits and can be broadly divided into
five groups, one of which specifically targets India and
Kashmir that gets the maximum support from the establishment,
says a US Congressional report.
India- and Kashmir-oriented militants, especially the
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Harakat
ul-Mujahadeen (HuM), are based in both the Punjab province and
in Pakistan-held Kashmir, the independent Congressional
Research Service said in its latest report to US lawmakers.
The report said within Pakistan the densely populated
Punjab province is home to numerous Islamist militant groups
with global and regional jihadist aspirations.
Perhaps most notable among these is the LeT, a
US-designated terrorist group with longstanding ties to the
ISI, and blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166
persons, it said
Islamist militant groups operating in and from
Pakistani territory are of five broad types -- Globally
oriented militants, Afghanistan-oriented militants, India- and
Kashmir-oriented militants, Sectarian militants, and
domestically oriented,
Globally oriented militants are especially al-Qaeda
and its primarily Uzbek affiliates, operating out of the FATA
and in the megacity of Karachi, it said.
The Afghanistan-oriented militants, included the
'Quetta shura' of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, believed
to operate from the Balochistan provincial capital of Quetta,
as well as Karachi. the report said.

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