washington us secretary of state mike pompeo declared it an affront to the victims and their families that those who planned the 6611 mumbai attack still have not been convicted even as another indianamerican died in a terrorist attack on a un vehicle in kabul on sundaypompeo confirmed news about the death of anil raj who was working as a coordinator for the united nations development program undp in afghanistan while marking the 11th anniversary of the mumbai terrorist attacksattacks targeting un personnel working to help the afghan people are unconscionable and we condemn this act in the strongest possible terms pompeo said in remarks at the state department without identifying the perpetrators of the attack most terrorist attacks in afghanistan are attributed to taliban protgs of pakistans militaryintelligence establishmentthere were few details available about the circumstances of anil rajs death aside from the fact that five other undp staff including civilians were injured in the attackthe californiaborn raj was known to have deep working ties to afghanistan and was a frequent visitor to and sometime resident in the country in a linkedin profile he listed his last assignment as collaborating with key national institutions embassy partners the nato mission and un agencies to design and launch new projects under the uns law order trust fund for afghanistan lotfa to improve rule of law service delivery to afghan citizensdescribing himself as an institutional development specialist raj appeared to have lived in kabul between december 2015 and march 2018 while providing technical and management services to support reform and development of afghanistans national rule of law institutionsa graduate of saratoga high school raj earned a bachelors degree in political science from university of california riverside and a masters degree in international human rights from the university of denver before going into international development his cv showed him having worked in three other crisis states myanmar south sudan and colombiarajs death came two days ahead of the 11th anniversary of the 2611 terrorist attack on mumbai perpetrated by pakistan and its militaryintelligence establishment which claimed 166 lives including that of six americansalthough pompeo regretted that planners of the mumbai attacks have not been convicted he made no mention of pakistan which has protected the perpetrators for 11 years and instead pivoted quickly to iran saying moving on to the worlds largest state sponsor of terrorism the islamic republic of iranpresident trump and i have been following closely the protests that have recently broken out across that countrythe digression was typical of washington which has refused to identify pakistan as a perpetrator of terrorism despite a myriad terrorists including osama bin laden and khalid sheikh mohammed being caught there and despite the many terrorist attacks pakistanbacked taliban have launched in afghanistan against american forces and its interests instead the us typically chases terrorist shadows in places such as iran cuba venezuela and till it became a trump favorite north korea while leaving pakistan unpunished on