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| Pakistan welcomes US blacklisting of TTP Jamaatul Ahrar |
| 2016-08-05 |
| [DAWN] Pakistain has welcomed a United States decision to place Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), splinter group of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), on a list of specially designated global terrorists. "Pakistain has long pleaded concrete action against the TTP and their like who operate in Afghanistan, and they have planned and launched a number of attacks in Pakistain while operating from there," Foreign Office front man Nafees Zakaria said at a weekly briefing on Thursday. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) is an offshoot of the TTP based in the Pak-Afghan border region. The group, founded by a former TTP leader in August 2014, has staged multiple attacks in the region targeting civilians, religious minorities, military personnel and law enforcement agencies. The US State Department announced that the designation automatically imposed on the group and its leaders all sanctions that applied to foreign persons and groups determined to have committed, or posing a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism. As a result of these designations, all property subject to US jurisdiction in which Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has any interest is blocked and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with the group. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar was responsible for the killing of two Pak employees of the US Consulate in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. in March. Later in that month, it carried out a suicide assault at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal amusement park in Lahore that killed more than 70 people -- nearly half of them women and kiddies -- and injured hundreds more. The Easter Sunday attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistain since December 2014. |
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