40 CRPF personnel were killed in the Pulwama attack in February. (File)IN A clear signal to Islamabad amid signs of de-escalation with Delhi, the US has warned Pakistan that another terror attack on India will prove to be “extremely problematic” and would “cause re-escalation of tensions”.
It also said that the US and the international community need to see “irreversible”, “concrete” and “sustained” actions by Pakistan against terror groups, including the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), PTI reported quoting a senior US administration official in Washington DC.
According to the report, the official also said that China has a responsibility not to shield Pakistan, and expressed deep disappointment over Beijing's decision to block a bid in the UN to designate JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist”.
After the Pulwama terrorist attack on February 14, the US had named Pakistan in all its statements condemning the incident and had done the heavy lifting with China to convince them to sign off on the UNSC condemnation statement. It had also said that India had the “right to self-defence”, which had emboldened Delhi to conduct the retaliatory Balakot airstrike on February 26.
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“We need to see Pakistan taking concrete and sustained action to rein in the terrorist groups, mainly the JeM and the LeT in order to ensure that we don't have…
