<span style="color: #222222;">A United States State Department report has slammed Pakistan for failing to curb terror funding and training terrorists on its soil. According to the 'Country Reports on Terrorism 2018', Pakistan failed to uniformly implement US sanctions on terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Briefing media in Washington at the launch of the report, US State Department's Counter-terrorism Coordinator and Ambassador Nathan Sales said, terrorist groups existing in Pakistan focused on targets outside the country. The report has also slammed Pakistan for allowing candidates overtly affiliated with terror front organizations to contest 2018 General Elections.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Recently, a senior State Department official had said, Islamabad needs to take constructive, sustained and irreversible steps against terrorist groups as such activities have hijacked a normal dialogue between India and Pakistan.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Earlier, US Diplomat Alice G Wells also said that though the US supports New Delhi-Islamabad direct dialogue, however, Pakistan's continued support to terror groups and extremists who indulge in cross-border terrorism is the chief obstacle.</span><br />''  <br />