[DAWN] The United States on Thursday designated Malik Ishaq, the chief of proscribed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LJ) bully boy group of Pakistain, in its list of most wanted international terrorists.
"The Department of State has designated Malik Ishaq as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224," said a statement issued by the US State Department.
The US government also decided to keep his outfit on the international terrorist organization list.
"In addition to Ishaq's designation, the Department of State has also reviewed and maintained the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation of LJ in accordance with Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended," said the statement.
The statement said that Ishaq has grabbed credit of his role in various terrorist activities that killed more than 100 Pak civilians mainly Shia Moslems.
"More recently, in February 2013, Pak police enjugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
Ishaq in connection with attacks on January 10 and February 16, 2013 in the northwestern city of Quetta that killed nearly 200 Pak civilians. LJ grabbed credit for the Quetta bombings."
American citizens and companies are now prohibited for engaging in transactions with the LJ chief after Thursday's announcement. The US authorities can now act in freezing all his financial assets and properties in the United States as well, said the statement.
"The Department took these actions in consultation with the Departments of Justice and Treasury," the blurb added.
Malik Ishaq is facing charges relating to killing of more than 100 people belonging to the minority sect and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009 and has spent around 15 years in Pak jails.
He was initially a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was
bannedin 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
(SSP), a banned Sunni bully boy group but later disassociated himself from it for his alleged 'violent policies' and formed his own outfit. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was proscribed by the Pakistain government as a terror group soon after its inception in early 1990s.
After reaching an agreement with Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous
bannedextremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the
political wingof Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
(ASWJ) chief Ahmed Ludhianvi, Ishaq joined as second in command of the former SSP in 2012.