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| LeT trying to increase tensions between India, Pak: UN | | | Agencies
New York July 15: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is still active and trying its best to increase the tension between India and Pakistan, a top UN official mandated to monitor the Security Council sanctions against al-Qaeda, Taliban and other terrorist groups said on Wednesday.
LeT, which is responsible for holding a series of terrorist attacks in India including the Mumbai terror strikes, has been declared as a terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council.
"Lashkar-e-Taiba tactics is quite obvious. It is trying to increase tensions between India and Pakistan at a time when they and their associates are particularly under pressure in western Pakistan," said Richard Barrett, Coordinator of the UN Security Council's al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Committee.
"They may do that again," Barrett said, adding that this is the real risk. Barrett along with Chairman of the Security Council's al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, Thomas Mayr-Harting, the Austrian Ambassador, addressed a joint press conference at the UN headquarters in New York.
Barrett said several LeT attacks have taken place in Lahore, which is hardly in the tribal areas, and even Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir had been attacked. "I think, these groups are real concern to Pakistan," he said, adding LeT is also having operational links with the Taliban
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