Washington, January 05: Pakistan-based terror groups have a “strategic intent” to launch major new attacks on the Indian soil to trigger a conflict between the two countries, according to a US intelligence and security think-tank.
In its annual forecast released today, Stratfor predicted that 2010 might see the US intensifying its drone strikes in Pakistan as the bulk of the al Qaeda leadership is believed to be hiding there.
As the nature of the war shifts to Pakistan, Stratfor said, there is a strong jihadist strategic intent to launch a major attack against India in order to trigger a conflict between India and Pakistan.
“Such an attack would re-direct Pakistani troops from battling the jihadists in the country’s west, towards the Indian border,” the think tank Stratfor said in its security forecast for South Asia in 2010.
–PTI