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Colombo, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan’s terror ecosystem is expanding rather than shrinking, with terrorist organisations such as Jaish-e-Mohammad establishing a women’s wing, ‘Jamaat-ul-Mominat’, and Lashkar-e-Taiba setting up a so-called ‘Water Wing’ aimed at maritime assault capabilities, a report said on Wednesday. According to a report in Sri Lankan media outlet Ceylon Wire News, terror financing has gone digital, with encrypted cryptocurrency transactions supplementing traditional hawala net…

Colombo, April 22 (IANS) With a US Congressional Research Service report recently identifying Pakistan as a persistent base for several long-active extremist groups, Sri Lanka must recognise that the “factory of terror” operating in its neighbourhood remains a big threat. The 2019 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka were aimed to affect island nation’s growing tourism industry and communal harmony while the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam was designed to derail regional stability, a rep…

Islamabad, March 30 (IANS) Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership should be pressed to confront the consequences of decades of strategic tolerance and nurturing towards terrorism operating from its soil — an approach that has made the country the most terror-affected in the world, according to a new report. The Pakistani people, who have borne the greatest cost of this policy in blood, deserve leadership that places their security above entrenched strategic doctrines.”For decades, Pakistan…