Washington: The United States of America took action against Terror Organization in 2019, Lashkar-e-Taiba of Pakistan and Jaish-e-Mohammad (Jaish-E-) Muhammad), along with other terrorist organizations, has blocked financial aid of about $ 6.3 million.
According to the annual report released on Thursday by the US Treasury Department-
- US $ 3,42,000 of Lashkar-e-Taiba,
- Jaish-e-Mohammed’s $ 1,725,
- Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin’s $ 45,798
- Tehreek-e-Taliban seized $ 5,067 in 2019
It is noteworthy that these three are Pakistani terrorist organizations. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is a jihadi group that carries out its activities in Kashmir. According to the report, another organization, Hizbul Mujaheddin, operating from Pakistan and carrying out its activities in Kashmir, was successful in stopping the $ 4,321 in 2019, while in the last year, agencies had to stop helping the organization with $ 2,287 Was a success.
It is noteworthy that the Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) is the important agency of the US whose responsibility is to enforce the ban on the assets of international terrorist organizations and countries supporting terrorism.
According to the report, in the year 2019, the US succeeded in stopping the financing of about 70 million declared terrorist organizations of $ 6.3 million, of which the maximum of $ 3 million is of Al Qaeda alone, whereas in the year 2018, the US blocked $ 4.6 million of terrorist organizations. In which Al Qaeda amounted to $ 64 million.
The list also includes the Haqqani network which was seized an amount of $ 26,546, which is higher than the year 2018 of $ 3,626. According to the report, the US has succeeded in stopping the Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) amounting to $ 5,80,811 in 2019.
According to the department’s report, the US has blocked $ 20.019 million of Iran, Sudan, Syria and North Korea in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
