Pakistan. A beautiful country that borders China, and is unfortunately home to a lot of terrorists. As you may know from reading the news, or watching Zero Dark Thirty, Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan until his villa was raided by Navy SEALs.
So it’s no surprise that another violent organization with ties to Al-Qaeda is also based partly in Pakistan: Jaish-e-Mohammed, or JeM.
According to the US government’s National Counterterrorism Center, JeM has openly declared war on the United States. A JeM member may have been involved in the killing of an American journalist in 2002. And JeM is responsible for a number of deadly attacks in India—including allegedly the recent attacks on Pathankot Air Force station, where seven Indian soldiers were killed.
Now you might think JeM should be labeled a terrorist organization. And in fact, the United Nations has done just that.
