WASHINGTON: The US has designated 4 leaders of al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban teams as world terrorists, Secretary of State Tony Blinken has mentioned as he emphasised that the Biden administration will be sure that terrorists don’t function with impunity in Afghanistan.
The terrorists who have been designated on Thursday have been Osama Mehmood, the emir of al-Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), Atif Yahya Ghouri, the deputy emir of AQIS and Muhammad Maruf who’s chargeable for the group’s recruiting department.
Qari Amjad, the deputy emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who oversees operations and militants in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, has additionally been slapped with sanctions.
“On account of these actions, all property and pursuits in property of these designated yesterday which might be topic to US jurisdiction are blocked, and all US individuals are usually prohibited from participating in any transactions with them,” Secretary of State Tony Blinken mentioned.
“Yesterday’s actions once more exhibit that we’ll proceed to make use of all related instruments to uphold our dedication to see to it that worldwide terrorists aren’t in a position to function with impunity in Afghanistan,” Blinken mentioned.
As a part of its relentless efforts to make sure that terrorists don’t use Afghanistan as a platform for worldwide terrorism, the US is dedicated to utilizing its full set of counterterrorism instruments to counter the menace posed by terrorist teams working in Afghanistan, together with AQIS and TTP, he mentioned in a press release.
Based in September 2014, AQIS is an Islamist militant organisation that goals to combat the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh with a view to set up an Islamic state.
TTP, generally generally known as the Pakistani Taliban, is an umbrella organisation of assorted Islamist armed terrorist teams working alongside the Afghan–Pakistani border. Fashioned in 2007, the group shares a standard ideology with the Afghan Taliban and assisted them within the 2001–2021 battle.
The terrorists who have been designated on Thursday have been Osama Mehmood, the emir of al-Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), Atif Yahya Ghouri, the deputy emir of AQIS and Muhammad Maruf who’s chargeable for the group’s recruiting department.
Qari Amjad, the deputy emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who oversees operations and militants in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, has additionally been slapped with sanctions.
“On account of these actions, all property and pursuits in property of these designated yesterday which might be topic to US jurisdiction are blocked, and all US individuals are usually prohibited from participating in any transactions with them,” Secretary of State Tony Blinken mentioned.
“Yesterday’s actions once more exhibit that we’ll proceed to make use of all related instruments to uphold our dedication to see to it that worldwide terrorists aren’t in a position to function with impunity in Afghanistan,” Blinken mentioned.
As a part of its relentless efforts to make sure that terrorists don’t use Afghanistan as a platform for worldwide terrorism, the US is dedicated to utilizing its full set of counterterrorism instruments to counter the menace posed by terrorist teams working in Afghanistan, together with AQIS and TTP, he mentioned in a press release.
Based in September 2014, AQIS is an Islamist militant organisation that goals to combat the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh with a view to set up an Islamic state.
TTP, generally generally known as the Pakistani Taliban, is an umbrella organisation of assorted Islamist armed terrorist teams working alongside the Afghan–Pakistani border. Fashioned in 2007, the group shares a standard ideology with the Afghan Taliban and assisted them within the 2001–2021 battle.
