A former Pentagon official, Michael Rubin has said that it is time for the Trump Administration to designate Pakistan along with Qatar and Turkey as state sponsors of terrorism. He said Pakistan to be held accountable and if Pakistan wishes to escape sanctions then it must imprison terrorists on its soil and stop funding them.<br/><br/>So far the Secretary of State has designated Libya, Iraq, South Yemen, Syria, Cuba, Iran, Sudan and North Korea as State Sponsor of Terrorism. However, Mr. Rubin, in an op-ed in The Washington Examiner said that three countries Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan deserves to be on list of State sponsor of terrorism.<br/><br/>He asserted that Pakistan has escaped the state sponsorship of terrorism list for far too long. Alleging that leaders of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence openly supports the Taliban, Mr. Rubin said Islamabad continues to tolerate and support an array of terrorist groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammad, which recruited the Times Square bomber, and Lashkar-e-Taiba, responsible for the 2001 attack on India's parliament and the 2008 slaughter of tourists at a Mumbai hotel.<br/><br/>Mr. Rubin observed that occasional Pakistani government crackdowns on these groups are insincere and even for the most high-profile terrorists, Pakistani prisons have revolving doors.<br/><br/>