New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday said the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was unlikely to end terrorism.

"The death of bin Laden, while being a setback for Al Qaeda, will not result in an end to the extremist violence spawned by fundamentalism," the party said in a statement.

At the same time, it said the US-sponsored "war on terror" had only worsened the situation, with tens of thousands of people getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"The fact that bin Laden could live in Pakistan for so many years points to the linkage between the security establishment and some of the extremist groups operating there," it said.

It pointed out that the US had enlisted Pakistan to fight the Soviet-backed Afghan government in the 1980s.

"The Pentagon and CIA had equipped and financed through the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), people like Osama, fuelling the later day Taliban and jehadi fundamentalists.

"The recent military intervention in Libya and the continuing war in Afghanistan show the US has learnt no lessons from the past.

"State terrorism and fundamentalist terrorism feed each other," it added. "Unless the US changes its approach of resorting to military force and state terrorism, the problem of terrorism cannot be tackled successfully."