The United States on Tuesday froze the assets of three Pakistanis it had linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the banned group blamed for the 2008 attacks in India’s financial capital, Mumbai.
The State Department added Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil to its list of “specially designated global terrorists,” saying he was a senior commander of the group.
The US Treasury targeted Hameed ul Hassan and Abdul Jabbar, who it said were responsible for funnelling money to LeT and paying salaries to its members.
“Treasury’s designations not only aim to expose and shut down Lashkar-e Tayyiba’s financial network, but also to curtail its ability to raise funds to carry out violent terrorist attacks,” Sigal Mandelker, the Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement, using an alternate spelling of the group’s name.
The designation means all property belonging to the men subject to US jurisdiction are blocked and Americans are prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), or Army of the Pure, has been accused of orchestrating numerous attacks, including the 2008 assault in Mumbai that killed 166 people, six of them Americans.
Published in Daily Times, August 1st 2018.
