WASHINGTON: Pakistan will continue to slip out of America’s influence andinto China’s by the year 2019, seventeen US intelligence agencies warnedthe United States (US) on Tuesday.
Congress also warned that Pakistan could also become a threat to theinterests of the US in the South Asian region by “deploying new nuclearweapons capabilities, maintaining its ties to militants, restrictingcounterterrorism cooperation, and drawing closer to China”.
The report also claims that “Pakistan-backed militant groups” will continueto take advantage of their alleged safe haven in Pakistan to “plan andconduct attacks in India and Afghanistan, including against US interests”.
This review is part of an annual report that the Director of US NationalIntelligence Daniel R. Coats presented to the Senate Intelligence Committeeon Tuesday.
The US agencies that were a part of this review included the CentralIntelligence Agency, Defence Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau ofInvestigation and National Security Agency.