(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The US Treasury Department targeted leaders of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET) terrorist organization based in Pakistan while additionally, the State Department made amendments to the group's entity designations by addressing other aliases LET is known as. The State Department designated LET as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in December 2001. "Since the original designation occurred, LET has repeatedly changed its name in an effort to avoid sanctions," said a State Department statement.
"More specifically, LET created Jama'at-ud-Dawa as a front organization, claiming that the group was an "organization for the preaching of Islam, politics, and social work," affirmed the statement.
The State Department made its amendments under LET's designations as a FTO and Specially Designated Global Teorroist (SDGT) to include their alias names of, "Jama'at-ud-Dawa, Al-Anfal Trust, Tehrik-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool, and Tehrik-e-Tahafuz Qibla Awwal." LET claimed responsibility for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 163. In 2011 the group ignited attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. Moreover, LET was responsible for an attack against an Indian army convoy in Kashmir that killed on and injured two. Most recently, the group attacked the Indian Consulate In Herat, Afghanistan last May. A statement from the Treasury released Wednesday said Nazir Ahmad Chaudry, "has been an LET senior leader since the early 2000s and has served as LET vice-president, member of the group's central leadership." Ahmad also directed the group's public relations department and was the head of LET's information wing as of 2012.
The treasury also highlighted Muhammad Hussein Gill, a senior LET shura membera and an LET founder.
"He has been an accountant for LT for more than ten years and more specifically, has served as LT's chief financial officer and headed LT's accounts department for several years," noted the statement.
The State Department statement said: "The consequences of the FTO and E.O. [Executive Order] 13224 designations include a prohibition against knowingly providing, or attempting or conspiring to provide, material support or resources to, or engaging in transactions with these organizations, and the freezing of all property and interests in property of the organizations that is in the United States."
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