WASHINGTON: Director National Intelligence of the United States (US), DanCoats has said that Pakistan-supported terrorist groups would continue toattacks inside Afghanistan from its safe havens across the border.

“Militant groups supported by Islamabad will continue to take advantage oftheir safe haven in Pakistan to plan and conduct attacks in India andAfghanistan, including against US interests,” Dan Coats said in histestimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Pakistan, he said, would continue to threaten US interests by deploying newnuclear weapons capabilities, maintaining its ties to militants,restricting counter-terrorism cooperation and drawing closer to China.

On February 13, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa whileaddressing the Chiefs of Defense Conference in Kabul said that Pakistan hadeliminated sanctuaries of terrorists from its soil and expect the same fromothers.