Analyst's note:  This headline will come as no surprise to many of you.  Here are a few of the details.  Why does the U.S. continue to fund this country?  Pakistan is known to have at least 12 domestic and some 32 transnational terrorist along with four extremist organizations operating withln their borders?

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[....] Pakistan indeed is riddled with terrorist groups backed by the government. It has created a number of what the United States would regard as terrorist groups to act as its proxy against India. Some of them are active in killing U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan.

To Pakistan, India remains the main enemy, which recently was outlined in Pakistan’s latest military doctrine.

“The Pak army is privileged, and this position should remain,” Roy said. “To do this, they need to create external threats” such as India.

At least one terrorist group, the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, attempted in May 2010 to explode a car bomb in New York’s Time Square. While the attempt was unsuccessful, evidence has shown that it was the TTP which trained the bomber, Faisal Shahzad.

Based on a compilation by the South Asia Intelligence Review which provides weekly assessments and briefings on terrorism in the region, there are some 12 domestic and some 32 transnational terrorist and four extremist organizations in Pakistan. They include:

Domestic Organizations

1. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
2. Lashkar-e-Omar (LeO)
3. Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
4. Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP)
5. Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi(TNSM)
6. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
7. Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP)
8. Jamaat-ul-Fuqra
9. Nadeem Commando
10. Popular Front for Armed Resistance
11. Muslim United Army
12. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami(HuMA)

Transnational Organizations

1. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
2. Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA, presently known as Harkat-ul Mujahideen)
3. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
4. Jaish-e-Mohammad Mujahideen E-Tanzeem (JeM)
5. Harkat-ul Mujahideen (HuM, previously known as Harkat-ul-Ansar)
6. Al Badr
7. Jamait-ul-Mujahideen (JuM)
8. Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ)
9. Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami(HUJI)
10. Muttahida Jehad Council (MJC)
11. Al Barq
12. Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
13. Al Jehad
14. Jammu & Kashir National Liberation Army
15. People’s League
16. Muslim Janbaz Force
17. Kashmir Jehad Force
18. Al Jehad Force (combines Muslim Janbaz Force and Kashmir Jehad Force)
19. Al Umar Mujahideen
20. Mahaz-e-Azadi
21. Islami Jamaat-e-Tulba
22. Jammu & Kashmir Students Liberation Front
23. Ikhwan-ul-Mujahideen
24. Islamic Students League
25. Tehrik-e-Hurriat-e-Kashmir
26. Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqar Jafaria
27. Al Mustafa Liberation Fighters
28. Tehrik-e-Jehad-e-Islami
29. Muslim Mujahideen
30. Al Mujahid Force
31. Tehrik-e-Jehad
32. Islami Inquilabi Mahaz

Extremist Groups

1. Al-Rashid Trust
2. Al-Akhtar Trust
3. Rabita Trust
4. Ummah Tamir-e-Nau

According to the South Asia Intelligence Review, many of these terrorist organizations continue to operate with a high degree of freedom in and from Pakistan.