Pakistan’s actions against India-focussed groups, however, have been far more nuanced. While direct ISI funding of groups such as the Jaish and the Lashkar has been terminated, and their training bases shut down or relocated, Pakistan has avoided dismantling their infrastructure. ISI strategists have focussed, instead, on the construction of firewalls between Islamist groups operating against India, like the Lashkar, and those like Al-Qaeda — a bid to ensure resources meant for fighting Pakistan’s enemy to the east are not used to target either friends in the west, or at home.
As a result, Pakistan continues to be a safe haven for terrorists operating against India. Mohammad Abdul Shahid, the head of the Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami cell that executed this year’s terror strikes in Hyderabad and Ajmer, is known to operate out of Karachi. Khalistan terror commanders such as Wadhawa Singh Babbar, too, are based in Lahore. India’s failure to persuade Pakistan to hand over these figures is not, of course, surprising. While the Central Intelligence Agency possesses a welter of credible evidence showing that Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar is sheltered by the ISI in Quetta, the U.S. has failed to secure his arrest — or elimination.
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