Is Pakistan the hub of World Terrorism?

Many world leaders now feel that Pakistan is the hub of most of the world's most dangerous terrorism. Look at the views below:

1. The United States State Department has said that Pakistan in the "epicentre of terrorism" and called upon the world to take action against terror from Pakistani soil.

2. Former CIA director Michael Hayden has warned that every major terrorist threat confronting the world has ties to Pakistan. He says that in Pakistan Al Qaeda had established safe haven and was training a “bench of skilled operatives.”

4. According to Time Magazine, which reported of a new parallel state called Talibanistan which has sprung up in Pakistan and Afghanistan: "the tribal region of Pakistan, a rugged no-man's-land that forms the country's border with Afghanistan--and that is rapidly becoming home base for a new generation of potential terrorists. Fueled by zealotry and hardened by war, young religious extremists have overrun scores of towns and villages in the border areas, with the intention of imposing their strict interpretation of Islam on a population unable to fight back. Like the Taliban in the late 1990s in Afghanistan, the jihadists are believed to be providing leaders of al-Qaeda with the protection they need to regroup and train new operatives. U.S. intelligence officials think that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may have found refuge in these environs."


5. Referring to more than 50 terror outfits are active in Pakistan, US President Barack Obama said Islamist extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan posed a grave threat that his new administration would tackle as a single problem under a wider strategy.

6. A spokesman for India’s ruling Congress party on Saturday called on the international community to consider declaring Pakistan a terrorist state in the wake of the release of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's nuclear scientist who leaked nuclear secrets to rogue countries like Iran. He is still a free man even though he helped export nuclear weapons to terrorists.
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7. The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan has links with the terrorist oufits based in the country, and the US is making an allout effort to ensure that these links are cut-off completely, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher has said. Boucher said that it is evident that the terror groups involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attack were operating from the Pakistani soil, and his country wanted to eliminate this menace.

8. According to Der Speigel: For years a kind of death industry has been taking hold in Pakistan's tribal areas. There are hundreds of Koranic schools which could better be described as cadet schools for Islamists. Boys as young as five are sent here by their impoverished parents. The idea is to condition or brainwash them. The goal is jihad. As young men these warriors are given military training which underscores their so-called spiritual training.

9. According to Wikepedia: Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, has often been accused of playing a role in major terrorist attacks across the world including the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States,[16][17][18] terrorism in Kashmir,[19][20][21] Mumbai Train Bombings,[22] London Bombings,[23] Indian Parliament Attack,[24] Varnasi bombings,[25] Hyderabad bombings[26][27] The ISI is also accused of supporting Taliban forces[28] and recruiting and training mujahideen[28][29] to fight in Afghanistan[30][31] and Kashmir[31]

10. Wikipedia continues: Pakistan is also said to be a haven for terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda,[32] Lashkar-e-Omar, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Sipah-e-Sahaba. Pakistan is accused of sheltering and training the Taliban in operations "which include soliciting funding for the Taliban, bankrolling Taliban operations, providing diplomatic support as the Taliban's virtual emissaries abroad, arranging training for Taliban fighters, recruiting skilled and unskilled manpower to serve in Taliban armies, planning and directing offensives, providing and facilitating shipments of ammunition and fuel, and on several occasions apparently directly providing combat support," as quoted by the Human Rights Watch.[33]