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They are probing a possible connection between Faisal Shahzad and Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence establishment.
His background as the son of a senior Air Force officer may have brought him into contact with intelligence agents who helped build the Afghan Taliban and who have channelled cash and training to home-grown Jihadis, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
"You don't know who he might have been introduced to in that sort of military environment," said the source.
Such a connection would be desperately embarrassing to the government in Islamabad, which is under pressure to demonstrate its commitment to tackling terrorism.
But it would help investigators make sense of how a boy raised in the secular, moderate environment of Pakistan's military schools could stand accused of terrorism.
Investigation teams, which have been arriving from the US since the start of the week, are at work in Peshawar, close to Shahzad's family home, Karachi, where he spent time as an adult as well as in Rawalpindi, where the Army and intelligence agencies are based, according to the source.
They believe he may have used colleagues of his father Air Vice Marshal Baharul Haq to make contact with the Pakistan Taliban.
Pakistan has a history of using Jihadi groups as a tool of its foreign policy. Its Inter-Services Intelligence agency helped equip and train Afghan Mujahideen fighting Soviet occupation during the 1980s and then used the Taliban to fill the resulting vacuum. They have supported militant groups in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
However, the government has become increasingly concerned in recent years about groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the devastating attacks in Mumbai in December 2008, and has distanced itself from some former allies.
American investigators are now examining what links might still exist "They kept the connection in case of what India might do," said the source.
US investigators believe the Pakistan Taliban provided training and financing for the plot.
Pakistan is already under pressure to do more to rid its tribal areas of militants.
At the weekend, Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, issued a stark warning.
"We've made it very clear that if heaven-forbid an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences," she said.
Fresh evidence emerged yesterday of Pakistan's problems with militants.
Up to 40 camps housing terrorists are in operation along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border, according to the Russian ambassador to India.
Alexandar Kadakin said the findings were based on Russian intelligence and satellite imagery.
No one from the Pakistan government or military was available to comment.
Rogue Pakistani intelligence agents 'involved in Times Square plot' - Telegraph
His background as the son of a senior Air Force officer may have brought him into contact with intelligence agents who helped build the Afghan Taliban and who have channelled cash and training to home-grown Jihadis, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
"You don't know who he might have been introduced to in that sort of military environment," said the source.
Such a connection would be desperately embarrassing to the government in Islamabad, which is under pressure to demonstrate its commitment to tackling terrorism.
But it would help investigators make sense of how a boy raised in the secular, moderate environment of Pakistan's military schools could stand accused of terrorism.
Investigation teams, which have been arriving from the US since the start of the week, are at work in Peshawar, close to Shahzad's family home, Karachi, where he spent time as an adult as well as in Rawalpindi, where the Army and intelligence agencies are based, according to the source.
They believe he may have used colleagues of his father Air Vice Marshal Baharul Haq to make contact with the Pakistan Taliban.
Pakistan has a history of using Jihadi groups as a tool of its foreign policy. Its Inter-Services Intelligence agency helped equip and train Afghan Mujahideen fighting Soviet occupation during the 1980s and then used the Taliban to fill the resulting vacuum. They have supported militant groups in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
However, the government has become increasingly concerned in recent years about groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the devastating attacks in Mumbai in December 2008, and has distanced itself from some former allies.
American investigators are now examining what links might still exist "They kept the connection in case of what India might do," said the source.
US investigators believe the Pakistan Taliban provided training and financing for the plot.
Pakistan is already under pressure to do more to rid its tribal areas of militants.
At the weekend, Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, issued a stark warning.
"We've made it very clear that if heaven-forbid an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences," she said.
Fresh evidence emerged yesterday of Pakistan's problems with militants.
Up to 40 camps housing terrorists are in operation along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border, according to the Russian ambassador to India.
Alexandar Kadakin said the findings were based on Russian intelligence and satellite imagery.
No one from the Pakistan government or military was available to comment.
Rogue Pakistani intelligence agents 'involved in Times Square plot' - Telegraph
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