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Pakistan must do more to eliminate terrorist safe havens: US envoy

US Ambassador to India Richard R. Verma said terrorist groups are using digital technologies to recruit, radicalise, and finance terror activities across borders and to coordinate attacks from remote locations.

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The US on Wednesday asked Pakistan to do more to eliminate terrorist safe havens saying terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to be a threat to everyone.

"We're also aware India is located in a challenging neighbourhood and the United States has been very clear, at the highest levels, that Pakistan can and must do more to eliminate terrorist safe havens," US Ambassador to India Richard R. Verma said at the US-India Expert Workshop on Countering Terrorist Use of the Internet.

Verma said last year, the US and India signed a Joint Declaration on combating terrorism, which outlined a shared vision for counter terrorism cooperation and reiterated the "concerns about terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Haqqani Network, Jaish-e-Mohammed, and others".

"Across the board, our security cooperation is making our two nations, and the world, a safer place... Our strategic convergence on countering-terrorism has never been closer," he said.

The Ambassador said terrorist groups are using digital technologies to recruit, radicalise, and finance terror activities across borders and to coordinate attacks from remote locations, where they are often beyond the reach of national authorities.

He said ISIL in particular, with its sophisticated use of social media, has changed the rules of the game. While ISIL has faced significant reversals in Iraq and Syria at the hands of the International Coalition, the group remains a clear and present threat in South Asia.

The US Ambassador said Indians and Americans are no strangers to terrorism as from the streets of New York and Mumbai to the steps of the Pentagon and India's Parliament, citizens of both the countries have been the target of terrorists and this global menace was responded with strength and resolve.

"And what's more clear than ever before is the importance of the United States and India working together to counter terror," a press release issued by the US Embassy here quoted him as saying.

Verma said security personnel of India and the US continue to train together and exchange best practices through workshops like this one.
"In fact, the State Department Anti-Terrorism Assistance program has trained more than 2,500 Indian security personnel during the past two decades. Two weeks ago, I inaugurated a new ATA course at the Central Detective Training School in Uttar Pradesh," he said.

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