US imposes sanctions to disrupt funding of Hafiz Saeed’s JuD, Lashkar

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The United States has imposed sanctions on Pakistan-based terrorists and an organisation run by 26/11 attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s JuD, . The sanctions have been slapped to disrupt the funding of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its front for “charitable activities’, the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Dawa al-Qu’ran (JDQ), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and ISIS Khorasan.”

These sanctions seek to disrupt the financial support networks of terrorists based in Pakistan who have provided support to the Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS, and LeT for recruitment and funding of suicide bombers and other violent insurgent operations,” said John Smith, Director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

“The US continues to aggressively target extremists in Pakistan and the surrounding region, including charities and other front groups used as vehicles to facilitate illicit terrorist activities,” Smith said.  “The three individuals and (an) entity we designated have connections with terrorist groups that are a direct threat to the security of both the United States and Pakistan,” he said.