Pakistan-Linked Terrorists Top UK Sanctions List

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LONDON – India’s most wanted manDawood Ibrahim Kaskar and Pakistanlinkedterrorists and terror groups figureprominently in an updated list of financialsanctions imposed by the Britishgovernment.Dawood Ibrahim features under his variousaliases and with his last knownaddress given as White House, near theSaudi Mosque in the Pakistani port cityof Karachi.The alleged mastermind of the 1993 serialbombings in Mumbai has been on aconsolidated list of asset freeze targetsdesignated by the United Nations,European Union and United Kingdomsince November 2003.”International arrest warrant issued bythe Government of India. Also referredto as Hizrat,” reads the latest documentreleased by the Treasury Department.Jaish-e-Mohammed or the Army ofMohammed, blamed for the 2001 attackon India’s parliament, featured on thefreeze list as a key outfit “based inPeshawar and Muzaffarabad, Pakistan”.It is linked with other banned groups likeHarkat- ul-Mujahidin, Lashkar-e-Taiba,Al-Akhtar Trust International andHarkat-ul Jihad Islami.Among the individuals on the banned listfor years are Haji Muhammad Ashraf,described as chief of finance of the outlawedLeT, and India-born MohammedBahaziq, referred to as a Saudi Arabiabasedleader of LeT, which carried outthe 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed166 people. “HM Treasury is responsiblefor the implementation and administrationof international financial sanctionsin effect in the UK, for domestic designationsunder the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act 2010,” the statement said.Under the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act2010, the Treasury is required to publisha quarterly report to parliament on itsoperation of the UK’s asset-freezingregime.