Washington: Extremist violence in Jammu and Kashmir is "fuelled by infiltration from Pakistan", and threatened to become a flashpoint for a wider India-Pakistan conflict during most of last year, US State Department said on April 30.

Its annual report on global terrorism lists the various organisations involved in terrorism in Kashmir and points out that some are based in Pakistan and some in Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir.

The report also said that the membership of each one of these organisations is in the thousands or hundreds.

The State Department notes that some of the 'jihadis' have been recruited from madrasas.

The terrorism report brings out Pakistan's dual and contradictory roles – one as an ally of the United States in the "global fight" against terrorism and the other as host to thousands of terrorists let loose in Kashmir.

"In 2002, South Asia remained a central battleground in the global war on terrorism…Pakistan remained a key ally in the anti-terrorism effort, offering support to US operations in Afghanistan, implementing close law-enforcement co-operation, and cracking down on domestic extremists.

Extremist violence in Kashmir, meanwhile, fuelled by infiltration from Pakistan across the line of control (LoC), threatened to become a flashpoint for a wider India-Pakistan conflict during most of the year," the report notes.

PTI