Washington, July 13(ANI): A senior Republican on the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security has slammed Pakistan for not sharing its databases with the US.
Susan Collins' comment comes after she reviewed a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, which said that Pakistan's ability to track known and suspected terrorists is substandard.
"It is stunning, that Pakistan which is supposed to be our ally in the war against terrorism, does not even share fingerprint data within its own government," Fox News quoted Collins, as saying.
"It doesn't share it with other Pakistani law enforcement agencies. That's a real problem," she added.
The GAO report has concluded that gaping holes remain in the US' databases of overseas terrorists as well as in passport security even a decade after September 11 attacks.
"Some countries do not have their own database systems with terrorist screening information or access to other countries' terrorist screening information to keep track of biographical and biometric information about individuals who are known or suspected terrorists," the report said.
"Even when countries have terrorist screening information, they may not have reciprocal relationships to share such information or other travel-related information such as airline passenger lists, with other countries, thereby limiting their ability to identify and prevent travel of known or suspected terrorists," it added.
The report will be officially released today when the issue is taken up publicly by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
The GAO is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress. (ANI)
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