Not only is the Taliban's most senior leadership the Quetta shura believed to be based in Pakistan.
New Delhi often blames terrorists based in Pakistan for carrying out attacks on Indian territory, a charge Islamabad denies.
Indian authorities believe all the attackers were Pakistanis, specifically blaming Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), an Islamic militant group based in Pakistan.
Tentative steps had been made towards restoring relations after the Mumbai attacks of 2008, which were blamed on militants based in Pakistan.
The Haqqani network is based in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which border on Afghanistan.
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Some of the Taliban militants conducting attacks in Afghanistan have been based in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and nearby tribal regions.
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The violence has plunged the neighbours into the worst crisis in relations since the Mumbai attacks of 2008, blamed on militants based in Pakistan.
First came howls of outrage and betrayal from the United Jihad Council, the umbrella grouping of militant factions that is based in Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir.
The violence plunged the neighbours into the worst crisis in relations since the Mumbai attacks of 2008, which were blamed on militants based in Pakistan.
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Kiran Nazish is a freelance journalist and activist based in Pakistan.
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They have begun a dialogue as well with what is, if possible, an even more dangerous, despicable and irreconcilable adversary: the Haqqani network, based in Pakistan.
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The violence has plunged the neighbours into the worst crisis in relations since the Mumbai attacks of 2008, which were blamed on militants based in Pakistan.
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This suggests that General Musharraf will have at least a little time to deal with the anti-Indian militant groups based in Pakistan, which are the most implacable foes of compromise.
The Afghan government wants the new administration in Pakistan to formulate a clear policy towards brokering peace in Afghanistan by pressurising or convincing Taliban leaders, who Kabul says are all based in Pakistan.
Controversy continued to dog Dutt's rising fortunes in Bollywood when an audiotape surfaced in the media in 2001 where the star was allegedly in conversation with an underworld figure, Chotta Shakeel, based in Pakistan.
America is furious that Pakistan is not doing more to stop the Haqqani network, an Afghan insurgent group based in Pakistan's tribal areas, from pulling off attacks in Afghanistan intended to make American claims of progress there look hollow.
He is also said to have fought with Taliban fighters in the north of Afghanistan and his group is close to the notorious al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani militant group, which is based in Pakistan's tribal areas but which focuses its activities inside Afghanistan.
The intriguing question that then raises itself is whether hardline militant organizations such as Lashkar e Taiba, based in Pakistan and largely Pakistani-manned, would have been ready to undertake such operations without specific encouragement or instructions from their liaison officers in the Pakistan military.
Yet it also diverts funds to its Pushtun brethren, the Afghan Taliban, and resists any ground attack on another group connected with al-Qaeda, the Haqqani network (active in Afghanistan, based in Pakistan), though it is said to be pressing them to join Afghan peace talks.
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, was not on the ballot, but the poll was widely seen as a referendum on his eight-year rule - including his alliance with the United States in the war on terrorist groups based in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistan angrily denies that it supports the Haqqanis, whom it po-facedly insists are based in Afghanistan, not Pakistan at all.
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In 2008, there were 30 suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan, based on a count by CNN in Islamabad.
At last he has something to show for the olive branches he has thrown at India, notably a ceasefire along the line of control in November 2003, and an effort to rein in the Pakistan-based militants stoking the insurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
In a sign that the movement itself is starting to worry about its own behaviour, Mullah Omar, the one-eyed Taliban chief, based over the border in Pakistan, has just issued a rare statement threatening rogue insurgents with sharia justice if they kill or injure civilians.
In 2008, there were 30 suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan, based on a CNN count.
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Following an attack in the region last year, some authorities said suspected assailants had received weapons and explosives training in Pakistan-based militant camps.
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President George Bush last week again described the Pakistani leader as a stalwart ally in this war a reference to his ditching of Pakistan's former friends, the Taliban, his promises to rein in Pakistan-based Islamic militants, and his provision of logistical support for the war in Afghanistan.
India suspended a peace process with Pakistan following attacks by Pakistan-based militants in Mumbai in 2008.
In May Pakistan-based militants murdered Abdul Gani Lone, a moderate separatist who was thinking of taking part.
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