New Delhi, April 30 -- Pakistan's track record in sponsoring, sheltering, and exporting terrorism has once again come under global scrutiny in the wake of the recent Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. For decades, its soil has been used as a launchpad for cross-border terrorism, insurgency, and extremist ideology.

In 2018, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, had suggested that the Pakistani government played a role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group, carried out.

General Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a coup in 1999, acknowledged that his forces trained militant groups to fight India in Kashmir. He confessed that the government turned a blind eye bec...