Pakistan supports groups that carry out terrorists activities, a former US counter-terrorism official has said, citing the close linkage it has with outfits like leT that carried out the Mumbai terror attacks.
“Pakistan is unique because of the various groups that are there that have been supported by the Pakistani State, groups like the lashkar-e-Tayyeba that have attacked in India, directed by Pakistani intelligence, murdering people in a hotel in Mumbai,” Michael Sheehan, who was Coordinator for Counter-terrorism with the rank and status of Ambassador-at- large from 1998 to 2000 at the US State Department, told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday.