It has been the source of instability, terrorism exported to the rest of the world, the source of 85 per cent of the world's opium production, the home of millions of refugees who have been driven to make their home in neighbouring countries, and millions more who have chosen to make their home far away where their sons and daughters can be educated, she said.
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President Donald Trump had slammed Pakistan for its continued support to terrorist groups and warned Islamabad of consequences if it continues to do so while announcing his Afghan and south Asia policy in August.
Fourteen people were killed in the town of Azaz near the Turkish border when missiles slammed into a school sheltering families fleeing the offensive and the children's hospital, two residents and a medic said.
The 2008 terror attack on Mumbai has been listed by the US Army among 10 other such episodes in its detailed illustrative note on anti-terrorism prepared for its counter-terror officials.