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U.S. sanctions leaders of Pakistan-based terror group

26 June 2014 03:26 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on two key figures of a Pakistan-based group blamed for the deadly 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The Department of Treasury added Nazir Ahmad Chaudhry and Muhammad Hussein Gill, who have served as vice president and chief financial officer of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba respectively, to its list of specially designated global terrorists.

The sanctions ensuing freeze all of their assets on U.S. soil and bar American citizens from doing business with them.

The U.S. State Department listed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as a foreign terrorist organization in December 2001, and the group was added to the United Nations 1267/1989 Sanctions list in 2005.

The Treasury said the group was responsible for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, in which nearly 200 people were killed and more than 300 others injured.

"In targeting Lashkar-e-Tayyiba leadership, today's action demonstrates our unrelenting commitment to combatting terrorism by disrupting terrorist groups' financial activities," David Cohen, under secretary of Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.