New York, May 09: For a wannabe terrorist like Faisal Shahzad, accused in the Times Square bombing plot, shopping for help in Pakistan is no problem as the country is like a supermarket with money and weapons freely available for potential jihadists.
Pakistan is the hub of dozens of jihadi organisations like Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Al Qaeda, Jalaluddin and Siraj Haqqani’s network, Tehrik-e-Taliban and the list goes on, Fareed Zakaria, editor of NEWSWEEK, writes in its latest edition.
He says that some of the major separatist groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, operate openly via front groups throughout Pakistan, noting that none of these terror outfits seem to have any difficulty in getting money and weapons.
Thus, Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American would -be terrorist of Times Square in New York, seems to have followed a familiar path, he writes.
–PTI