Af-Pak region has the highest concentration of terrorist groups: US General
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WASHINGTON: The Pak-Afghan region has the highest concentration of terrorist groups in the world, warns Gen John W. Nicholson, the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.
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In an annual assessment of US military operations in Afghanistan this year, the general also took credit for rescuing former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son from a militant hideout in Afghanistan earlier this year and for killing the perpetrator of the Dec 16, 2014 terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar.
At a recent news briefing at the Pentagon, Gen Nicholson said that there were 98 US-designated terrorist groups around the world and 20 of them were in the Pak-Afghan region.
“This represents the highest concentration of terrorist groups anywhere in the world,” he added.
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Thirteen of these 20 groups were based in Afghanistan and seven in Pakistan.
Gen Nicholson said that the groups operating in this region often “mix and converge”, which made them even more dangerous.
