1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov September 23, 2021Terrorist and Other Militant Groups in PakistanU.S. officials have identified Pakistan as a base of operations and/or target for numerous armed, nonstate militant groups, some of which have existed since the 1980s. Notable terrorist and other groups
2、operating in and/or launching attacks on Pakistan are of five broad, but not exclusive types: (1) globally-oriented; (2) Afghanistan-oriented; (3) India- and Kashmir-oriented; (4) domestically-oriented; and 5) sectarian (anti-Shia). Twelve of the fifteen groups listed below are designated as Foreign
3、 Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) under U.S. law and most, but not all, are animated by Islamist extremist ideology. Pakistan has suffered considerably from domestic terrorism since 2003, and related fatalities peaked in 2009 (see Figure 1). Many observers predict a resurgence of regional terrorism an
4、d militancy in the wake of the Afghan Talibans August 2021 successes. Figure 1. Terrorism-Related Fatalities in Pakistan, 2000-2020 Source: South Asia Terrorism Portal (New Delhi) According to the U.S. State Departments Country Reports on Terrorism 2019 (released in June 2020), Pakistan has “continu
