US keen to freeze LeT’s funding sources The US State Department said on Thursday that it had named four charity trusts associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba as foreign terrorist organisations to ensure that LeT does not continue to use these groups for funding its activities. On Wednesday evening, the department announced amendments to an earlier designation of Lashkar-e-Taiba as a foreign terrorist organisation and added four new aliases -- Jama’at-ud-Dawa, Al-Anfal Trust, Tehrik-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool, and Tehrik-e-Tahafuz Qibla Awwal – to the list. “What we did was add additional aliases to make sure that we can increasingly cut off the funding and support to LeT through these other aliases that they use for their activities as well,” US State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf told a briefing on Thursday.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:02:06 +0000
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