LeT may target India again: UN anti-terror official

New York, July 15 (PTI) Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT) is still active and there is a "real risk" that the
terror group may target India again to increase tensions
between the two neighbours, a top UN official said on
Wednesday.

"Lashkar-e-Taiba tactics is quite obvious. It is
trying to increase tensions between India and Pakistan at a
time when they and their associates are particularly under
pressure in western Pakistan," said Richard Barrett,
Coordinator of the UN Security Council's al-Qaeda and Taliban
Sanctions Monitoring Committee.

LeT, which is responsible for holding a series of
terrorist attacks in India including the terror strikes on
western Indian city of Mumbai, has been declared as a
terrorist organisation by the United Nations Security Council.

"They may do that again," Barrett said, adding that
"this is the real risk".

Barrett along with Chairman of the Security Council's
al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, Thomas Mayr-Harting,
the Austrian Ambassador, addressed a joint press conference at
the UN headquarters here.

Barrett said several LeT attacks have taken place in
Lahore, which is hardly in the tribal areas, and even
Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir had been attacked. "I think,
these groups are real concern to Pakistan," he said, adding
LeT is also having operational links with the Taliban. PTI LKJ
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