Washington: After reviewing the Terror List, the US along with ISIL-Sinai Peninsula (ISIL-SP) and other organizations operated Lashkar-e-Taiba (Lashkar-E-Taiba) from Pakistan. ) And Lashkar-e-Ingvi (LJ) have been retained in it.
Just a few days before the transfer of power, the US Foreign Ministry said that it had amended the list of declared terrorists to include organizations associated with LJ and ISIL-SP. According to the press release, the Ministry of External Affairs reviewed the list of international terrorist organizations and LJ, ISIL-SP, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish Rizal al-Tariq al Naqshbandi, Jamaatul Ansarul Muslimeeniya Fe Biladis-Sudan (Ansaru), Al-Nusrat Front, Continuity Irish Republican Army, and National Liberation Army are retained in this list.
In a Federal Register notification issued on the 14th of this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, “Based on a review of administrative documents… I have come to the conclusion that the circumstances under which international terrorist organizations are declared. , They did not change so much that they are removed from the sanctions and the US National Security does not allow those organizations to be excluded from the sanctions. “
It is noteworthy that Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the attack on Mumbai in the year 2008 and has been declared by the US since 2001 as an international terrorist organization. The Foreign Ministry had earlier reported that since Lashkar-e-Taiba was declared an international terrorist organization, it has been continuously changing its name and working as a mask organization to avoid sanctions.
The US Department of Revenue reported this month that the United States blocked Lashkar-e-Taiba’s help of $ 3,42,000 in 2019 as part of a campaign to stop the financing of international terrorist organizations.
