Lashkar-e-Taiba an ideal proxy for Pakistan: US expert

Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist outfit, is a "perfect proxy" for Pakistan's spy agency ISI, a leading American expert on security issues has said.

Literally, the Pakistan Army trains, the LeT personnel, Christine Fair from the Georgetown University said during a roundtable at the Hudson Institute think-tank.

"Which is why they are so competent," she said on Tuesday in an apparent reference to some of the high-profile terrorist strikes inside India.

"And they are very pro-State. So, in some ways LeT was made that way. LeT is an ideal proxy. LeT is as close as you get to a perfect proxy," said Fair who is author of the book 'In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Taiba.'
Pakistan has been unsuccessfully trying to drum up international support against India especially in the United States over the Kashmir issue, which New Delhi has categorically said was its "internal matter"