Ex-US official: Pakistan support for terrorism likely

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00:00I mean does that sound credible to you? Do these groups exist and do you think their funding really

00:05does come from the powers that be in Pakistan? These groups really do exist. Lashkar-e-Taiba,

00:11which is allegedly behind the group that India claims took responsibility for the terrible

00:20massacre in Kashmir, has been hosted by Pakistan, supported by Pakistan, and there have been over

00:29the years very strong indications that the ISI, the Inner Services Intelligence Directorate of the

00:35Pakistani military, has played a very strong supporting role to their efforts. Will anyone

00:41find a direct link? Probably not, because these intelligence agencies are good at arranging cutouts,

00:47but there's really no doubt that the support for these people who have carried out these attacks

00:54this time and in the past does come from inside Pakistan. And if you look at what the Pakistani

01:02chief of general staff said in his speech a week before the attack, that was very hostile to India,

01:08and that described Kashmir as Pakistan's jugular vein, in other words, the key to Pakistan's national

01:16survival, it's very hard not to see Pakistan's hand behind this.

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