Pakistan Remains Base For Terror Groups Targeting India, Says US Congress Report

New Delhi: A report by the United States Congress has once again underlined Pakistan’s role as a hub of terrorist activity and several terror groups look to target India and even aim to annex Jammu and Kashmir. The report also states that some of these organizations have existed since the 1980s. 

What is the name of the report?

A report was tabled by the United States Congress, which was titled "Terrorist and other Militant Groups in Pakistan", presented a structured assessment of terror ecosystems functioning within Pakistan.

The detailed report also categorized them based on operational focus and ideological orientation.

What is there in the report?

The report by the US Congress have identified Pakistan as a base of operations and target for numerous armed, nonstate terrorist groups

The report stated that Pakistan was both a base and a target for numerous non-state militant groups, several of which had been active since the 1980s. 

The Congressional Research Service report noted that despite sustained military campaigns and counter-terror operations, these terror outfits continued to function with significant capability.

What are the categories of terror groups operating from Pakistan?

The report classified terror organisations into five broad categories, which are globally oriented groups, Afghanistan-oriented militants, India and Kashmir-focused organisations, domestically oriented groups, and sectarian outfits targeting Shia communities.

The report examined 15 groups, out of which 12 had been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organisations under US law. 

This classification showed the scale and diversity of terrorist organisations operating from Pakistan.

The report also stated that Pakistan itself had suffered significantly from terrorism since 2003, with fatalities peaking in 2009. However, after a brief decline, terrorism-related deaths had risen again and reached 4,001 in 2025, the highest in over a decade.

“With several thousand fighters, LET was responsible for the mass-scale 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai, India, as well as several other high-profile attacks”, the report says.