WASHINGTON: After the allegations of giving safe heavens to terrorists inPakistan from Kabul and New Delhi now Washington has levelled the sameallegations on Pakistan.

The troika of Kabul, New Delhi and Washington is on the same page nowagainst Pakistan. The line are being drawn.

After Pentagon and State Department now US Director of NationalIntelligence has also levelled the same allegations.

Pakistan’s military is holding back counter-terrorism cooperation with theUnited States while continuing to go easy on militant groups based in thecountry, US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said on Tuesday.

Coats told a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee that despiteWashington’s requests to do more, the Pakistan military is only trying toappear tougher against the Taliban and Haqqani militants.

“Pakistan-based militant groups continue to take advantage of their safehaven to conduct attacks in India, in Afghanistan, and including USinterests therein,” Coats claimed.

“Ongoing Pakistani military operations against the Taliban and associatedgroups probably reflect the desire to appear more proactive and responsiveto our requests for more actions against these groups,” he added.

However, actions taken thus far “do not reflect a significant escalation ofpressure against these groups and are unlikely to have a lasting effect.”

Coats said that the US Treasury Department had announced terrordesignations in recent weeks on eight members of the Taliban, the HaqqaniGroup and other groups, aiming to boost pressure on the militants’abilities to operate.

However, US intelligence agents believe that Islamabad “will maintain tiesto these militants while restricting counter-terrorism cooperation with theUnited States”, he said.