Should Pakistan be declared state sponsor of terrorism?

I’ve thought that for a long time, but we need that government to work with us as much as possible, so it isn’t practical to do so and therefore we continue to support them with tons of dollars. We live in a world of strange bedfellows..

Like @Espiritus_Corvus , I have thought about this too, but there does seem to be a bit of a difference between Pakistan and other countries. In Pakistan, the government is too unstable to be a consistent “state supporter.”

Too many times, the Pakistani government is a target!

What kind of action should be taken?
The US have launched almost 400 airstrikes in Pakistan since 2008. What else should we do?
State sponsors of terrorism is kind of vague and a matter of perspective.
I have to imagine that many people living in the Middle East view the US as a state sponsor of terrorism.

^^ Pakistan has been notorious by giving shelter to terrorist groups that operate along with borders of India / Afghanistan. ISI ( Pakistani Agency) is said to be the mastermind behind it. Funding given by US is being used to spread terrorism across it’s borders. If it is declared the state as such the funding will be reduced. Additionally there would be more international pressure on that country to refrain from such activities in future.

Declared a state sponsor of terrorism by who exactly? Maybe Pakistan should declare America, which has launched 400 airstrikes against the country in the last eight years, a state sponsor of terrorism.

^^ You’re referring to drone attacks i suppose. But they’re carried out to kill Talibani militants hiding inside Pakistan on the Afghan side. How can that be sponsoring terrorism?

I’m not really sure why treating them as a enemy would produce better results. At least now we can have big-boy dialog. Once you call someone a enemy they become one.

It is sort of like when my mom would ground me for shit I didn’t do. I’m being punished, might as well enjoy the crime…...

All this talk of wanting to declare Pakistan as a State sponcer of terror is nothing more than geo-political shenanigans and ruses.
Pakistan is not doing anything different than it did for the last 40 years! The only difference is then they were American allies and India wasn’t, now India is a favored American ally and Pakistan is on it’s way out. Then Pakistan’s nuclear program was not a threat and India’s nukes were a threat to world peace, now it is reversed. Then the media hid Pakistan’s meddling in Kashmir, now it’s hiding India’s atrocities in Kashmir!
These sorts of labels are only helpful to sway public opinion one way or another, as an opiate for the masses.
Real terrorists are the ones pulling strings to prepare for yet another profiteering war decades in the making.

Well, now that the colonies have passed a law that enables colonials to sue other countries, they can sue Pakistan!
And in return, the families of the Pakistani victims murdered in colonial drone terror strikes can sue the colonies!
Lawsuits all around!

You should probably google the NSA Skynet program before you start pointing the finger at Pakistan as being a sponsor of terrorism. In that area the biggest terrorist is the US.

This is one of those issues that the United States does NOT wish discussed publicly in an open forum. Only a fool is going to sanction rock throwing while living in the world’s largest and most conspicuous glass house.

And yet the US congress passed the JASTA act because they thought that pissing off the only ally the US has in the middle east would be a good idea.

Definitely yes, but Pakistan is an ally of USA for Middle East & Iran, do you think it could be declared a terrorism state? Of course not.