“Jihad – Pakistan’s Tool Of Statecraft Or Witchcraft?”, News18, 26 Sep 2026.

““We export software, Pakistan exports terror” — the Prime Minister’s famous statement made on 24 September 2016 remains valid today in 2026. In September 2026, at the UN Human Rights Council, Indian diplomat Kshitij Tyagi had to slam Islamabad for “exporting terror” and indulging in historical revisionism, urging Pakistan to focus on its economic crisis and minority rights instead of making territorial claims on Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan has a total of 163 universities managed and funded by the government. The total number of terror organisations and their concomitant terror schools numbers around 152! The South Asian Terrorism Portal (SATP) identifies three major classifications of extremist organisations operating inside Pakistan:

• • Proscribed terrorist/extremist groups, numbering 81
  • Active terrorist/insurgent organisations, numbering 45
  • Inactive terrorist/insurgent organisations, numbering 26

The total of all these classifications numbers 152, almost the same as the number of government universities. Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior has officially proscribed around 70 militant and extremist organisations under the Anti-Terrorism Act, while broader threat assessments, such as those by the US Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism, note that dozens of organisations (approximately 41 active groups out of 87 assessed) maintain varying operational footprints in the country……..”

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