Here's what Director of IS National Intelligence Dan Coats told Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about India.

The militant groups supported by Pakistan will continue to conduct terrorist attacks in both India, America's spymaster has said. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats also said Pakistan's "narrow approach to counterterrorism cooperation-using some groups as policy tools and confronting only the militant groups that directly threaten Pakistan-almost certainly will frustrate US counterterrorism efforts against the Taliban."

He also warned the possibility of communal violence in India before the general election, the security threat posed by nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan, and Indian ties with China next year.

Coats and heads of other top American intelligence agencies appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on their worldwide threat assessment. Prominent among them included CIA Director Gina Haspel, who has just returned from a trip to India; FBI Director Christopher Wray and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley.

The comment on South Asia is part of the US intelligence community's assessment of worldwide threats in 2019 and was presented in the form of a written document to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence by Coats.

Here are a few more things that US Spy Chief Dan Coats forewarned about at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Worldwide Threats'.