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NEW DELHI:  The US State Department has slammed Pakistan in its just released country reports on ‘Terrorism 2020’. According to the report, Pakistan has made limited progress to counter terrorism. The State Department says Pakistan has not taken steps to prosecute terrorist leaders such as Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) founder Masood Azhar and Lashkar-e-Toiba’s (LeT) Sajid Mir, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The report added that groups targeting Afghanistan — including the Afghan Taliban and affiliated Haqqani Network, as well as groups targeting India, including LeT and its affiliated front organisations,...