US Retained Pak Based Lashkar-e-Taiba In Terrorist Category

US retained Lashkar-e-Taiba in the terrorist category, which operates from Pakistan. The US has given a major blow to Pakistan, which is struggling to get out of the gray list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The US has retained Lashkar-e-Taiba in the list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Apart from this, seven more organizations including Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Jhangwees have also been given the status of foreign terrorist organizations. The US State Department order came just before an important meeting of the FATF next month.

Pakistan is currently on the gray list of the FATF but could be blacklisted if it does not meet the 27-point action plan on Terror funding (terrorism financing) and money laundering. At the last FATF meeting, it was found that Pakistan had acted on only 21 points.

If Pakistan does not come out of the gray list, it will find it difficult to get financial support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the European Union.

The United States declared Lashkar a terrorist organization in 2001 In the year 2001, Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the Mumbai attack in 2008, was declared a terrorist organization by the US.

Giving the status of a foreign terrorist organization puts an end to the planning of these terrorist organizations and attempts to raise resources to attack.

Not only this, the property of the people associated with the organization can be confiscated in America, and citizens of the country are told not to contact them. Giving help to these people also comes under the category of crime.

Earlier, the United States, while taking action against foreign terrorist organizations, stopped the financial assistance of about $ 6.3 million to other terrorist organizations including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2019.

The US had succeeded in blocking the Lashkar’s $ 3,42,000, Jaish’s $ 1,725, Harkat ul Mujahideen’s $ 45,798. All three are Pakistan-based terrorist organizations. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is a jihadi group that carries out its activities in Kashmir.