Pakistan’s claims that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory is being strongly contested by FBI which has told a US court that satellite pictures pointed towards such a camp.
In the trial of 23-year-old Pakistani American Hamid Hayat, who has been accused of terrorism-related charges, Defence Intelligence Agency’s expert Eric Benn has stated that there was as much of a seventy per cent “probablity” that the satellite images pointed to a militant training camp near Balakot in northeast Pakistan.
Much to Pakistan’s embarrassment, Benn told the district court in California that although he did not “detect any formal weapons training“, including firing ranges, targets, rocket launchers or explosives testing, it did not mean they were not taking place
The structures and trail in the remote terrain fit the “signature” of “militant training“, as opposed to regular training of Pakistani armed forces, he said.
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