Islamabad, August 04: Pakistan-based outlawed groups Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed have supported the Taliban and al Qaeda in destabilising the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.
Malik, who made the remark while talking to a Pakistani TV news channel, did not give details of the linkages between the two outfits and the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Pakistan recently acknowledged that the Mumbai terrorist attack was planned and executed by the LeT, which was banned in the country in 2002.
However, Malik recently ruled out arresting LeT founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, saying there was no concrete evidence linking him to the Mumbai incident.
–Agencies