London, May 9 -- Jonathan Spyer, Director of Research at the Middle East Forum, has drawn attention to the connections between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Hamas, emphasising that such links are "worthy of further research."

Discussing ISI's possible role in maintaining connections with Hamas, Spyer stated, "It's quite feasible and not hard to believe that ISI, a crucial, of course, agency within the Pakistani state regarding the support for proxy Islamist terror groups, could also be reaching out to Hamas, and I think this is very much worthy of further research and investigation."

Speaking to ANI, Spyer directly explained, "If we look at the background to the organisation which carried out the attack, we know that ...