a lot of support outside your own national borders. reporter: the u.s. wants the pakistani army to expand its operations to attack the haqqani network. but pakistan has refused. the u.s. says pakistan sometimes allies with the haqqanis, including this attack on the indian embassy in kabul. pakistan says it can t attack the haqqanis because that would increase violence inside pakistan. the united states has asked the army to be very aggressive in north waziristan. do you think that kind of aggression that the u.s. has asked for would help fight the militants? this is our country. these are our people. these are our problems. we will go into north waziristan if we want to go for our domestic reasons. reporter: but the u.s. fears that until pakistan goes after the haqqanis there will be more attacks like this in the heart of kabul. nick schifrin, abc news, peshawar, pakistan. some sad news in the case of a nursing student missing in
that they re still relevant? i sure do. i think they ll try. whether they can pull it off, i don t know. i mean, they haven t been able to do anything significant. but they certainly have tried. and they will want to memorialize their leader s death. so i say between now and may 2nd of next year if we see no significant action on the part of al qaeda then i think the die is cast for that organization. in pakistan there are other groups, lashkar-e-taiba i may be pronouncing it wrong. that s correct. they were involved in the mumbai attack. which was really, when you think about it, it seems like we re seeing an increasing number of these kind of handful of people launching an operation with pretty limited weapons. and in the case of the mumbai attack they were able to paralyze a major city. we also saw there was an attack i think at an indian embassy in kabul. there was an attack in pakistan as well.
in pakistan there are other groups, lashkar-e-taiba i may be pronouncing it wrong. that s correct. they were involved in the mumbai attack. which was really, when you think about it, it seems like we re seeing an increasing number of these kind of handful of people launching an operation with pretty limited weapons. and in the case of the mumbai attack they were able to paralyze a major city. we also saw there was an attack i think at an indian embassy in kabul. there was an attack in pakistan as well. does that seem to be the new model for attacks? well, the model that you re talking about is the handiwork of pakistani intelligence. the isi or a branch of it. the isi. yeah. for instance, we have indictments in chicago having to do with the mumbai attack, charging isi with coordinating and directing those attacks. they were actually had hands on on that? yes.
of al qaeda then i think the die is cast for that organization. in pakistan there are other groups, lashkar-e-taiba i may be pronouncing it wrong. that s correct. they were involved in the mumbai attack. which was really, when you think about it, it seems like we re seeing an increasing number of these kind of handful of people launching an operation with pretty limited weapons. and in the case of the mumbai attack they were able to paralyze a major city. we also saw there was an attack i think at an indian embassy in kabul. there was an attack in pakistan as well. does that seem to be the new model for attacks? well, the model that you re talking about is the handiwork of pakistani intelligence. the isi or a branch of it. the isi. yes. for instance, we have indictments in chicago having to do with the mumbai attack. charging isi with coordinating and directing those attacks. they were actually had hands on on that? yes. they helped them pick the sites. moreover, i
of islam i can extremism, so therefore u.s. forces cannot, as they are doing in afghanistan, crack down on the militants. however much they have improved the security forces, they aren t as determined or effective in fighting islamic extremism in pakistan. shepard: of note, the report indicates pakistan s neighbor, india, is attracting attention. they re getting increasingly concerned about terrorists on its own turf and terrorists attacking interests overseas. the most symbolic, the most violent, was the attack on the hotel in mumbai a year and a half ago but we saw on february 26, this year, an attack on the indian embassy in kabul. a lot of fatalities. india is very concerned, the prime minister recently meeting with karzai, trying to work out how the two could work together