Pakistan has ties to terror groups: US lawmaker

WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): Alleging that Pakistan fosters a relationship with terrorist groups, an influential US lawmaker on Monday urged the Trump Administration to have a final determination on whether the South Asian country is a state sponsor of terrorism.

Congressman Ted Poe from Texas, who is Chairman of the powerful House Subcommittee on Terrorism, said if the Trump administration did not want to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, there had to be a “legal justification” as to why it did not meet the criteria for such a . . .