Looks like Pakistan will be put on the list of countires that sponor terrorism.
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US Report Admonishes Pakistan on Terror
WASHINGTON :A State Department report on terrorist activities worldwide urges Pakistan to curb armed groups fighting India for control of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
The admonition is contained in the department's annual report on terrorism, due to be released Monday.
While Pakistan is not on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, a State Department official said the report notes that Pakistan is being watched. ``They need to do better,'' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Pakistan and Afghanistan are accused of providing safe havens and support to international terrorist groups.
The world faces greater threats from ''loose networks'' of Pakistani and Afghan groups and individuals motivated more by religion and ideology than by politics and financed increasingly by drug trafficking, crime and illegal trade.
The New York Times, saying it had obtained the full 107-page report, reported in Sunday editions that in addition to Pakistan, the latest report is especially critical of Afghanistan for providing safe haven and support to international terrorist groups.
The congressionally mandated report, issued each spring, largely mirrors the comments on Pakistan made by President Clinton when he visited that country on March 25.
Clinton pressed Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani leader, to ease tensions with India and restrain Islamic militants from moving across a cease-fire that divides Kashmir between the two countries.
Clinton said Pakistan must ``create conditions that will allow dialogue to succeed'' in resolving the Kashmir dispute, which nearly sparked a war between the two South Asian rivals last summer.
The Times said the report cites Afghanistan as a ``major terrorist threat'' by, among other things, continuing to shelter the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Overall, it said, the report concludes that the threat of terrorism now comes less from state-sponsored attacks than from ``loose networks'' of groups and individuals motivated more by religion or ideology by politics and financed increasingly by drug trafficking, crime and illegal trade.
The Times said the report also notes that the weapons of choice are moving away from car and truck bombs and other explosives and more toward biological, nuclear, chemical and other ``weapons of mass destruction,'' as well as ``cyber-terrorism.''
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US Report Admonishes Pakistan on Terror
WASHINGTON :A State Department report on terrorist activities worldwide urges Pakistan to curb armed groups fighting India for control of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
The admonition is contained in the department's annual report on terrorism, due to be released Monday.
While Pakistan is not on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, a State Department official said the report notes that Pakistan is being watched. ``They need to do better,'' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Pakistan and Afghanistan are accused of providing safe havens and support to international terrorist groups.
The world faces greater threats from ''loose networks'' of Pakistani and Afghan groups and individuals motivated more by religion and ideology than by politics and financed increasingly by drug trafficking, crime and illegal trade.
The New York Times, saying it had obtained the full 107-page report, reported in Sunday editions that in addition to Pakistan, the latest report is especially critical of Afghanistan for providing safe haven and support to international terrorist groups.
The congressionally mandated report, issued each spring, largely mirrors the comments on Pakistan made by President Clinton when he visited that country on March 25.
Clinton pressed Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani leader, to ease tensions with India and restrain Islamic militants from moving across a cease-fire that divides Kashmir between the two countries.
Clinton said Pakistan must ``create conditions that will allow dialogue to succeed'' in resolving the Kashmir dispute, which nearly sparked a war between the two South Asian rivals last summer.
The Times said the report cites Afghanistan as a ``major terrorist threat'' by, among other things, continuing to shelter the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Overall, it said, the report concludes that the threat of terrorism now comes less from state-sponsored attacks than from ``loose networks'' of groups and individuals motivated more by religion or ideology by politics and financed increasingly by drug trafficking, crime and illegal trade.
The Times said the report also notes that the weapons of choice are moving away from car and truck bombs and other explosives and more toward biological, nuclear, chemical and other ``weapons of mass destruction,'' as well as ``cyber-terrorism.''
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