A US Congressional report has said that Pakistan is home to a large number of militant outfits, which can be broadly divided into five groups. One of them is specifically targeted against India that gets the maximum support from the establishment. The independent Congressional Research Service said in its latest report to US lawmakers that India- and Kashmir-oriented militants, especially the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Harakat ul-Mujahadeen (HuM), are based in both the Punjab province and in Pakistan-held Kashmir. The report said Pakistan's densely populated Punjab province is home to numerous Islamist militant groups with global and regional jihadist aspirations. The report describes rest of the groups as – Globally oriented militants, Afghanistan-oriented militants, Sectarian militants, and domestically oriented. Globally oriented militants are especially al-Qaeda and its primarily Uzbek affiliates, operating out of the FATA and in the megacity of Karachi, it said. The Afghanistan-oriented militants, including the 'Quetta shura' of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, believed to operate from the Balochistan provincial capital of Quetta, as well as Karachi; the organization run by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Sirajuddin, in the North Waziristan tribal agency; and the Hizb-I Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (HiG), operating further north from the Bajaur tribal agency and Dir district.