As investigators probe connections between the Orlando killer and the ISIS group, analysts say the jehadis are struggling to gain a foothold in one country repeatedly linked to their high-profile attacks: Pakistan.
White House hopeful Donald Trump mentioned Pakistan in a speech this week in New Hampshire as he doubled down on anti-immigration threats in the wake of the bloody rampage in Orlando.
Trump cited an attack in California last November, when a Pakistani woman and her US-born husband were praised by IS as “soldiers” of the caliphate after killing 14 people.
Other murky links between Pakistan and ISIS attacks have also emerged.
Two people were killed in France on Monday by a man claiming allegiance to ISIS —and known to French intelligence for his role in a Pakistan-linked jehadi group.