The US Treasury said Nazir Ahmad Chaudhry, one of the two hit with sanctions, has been a senior leader and strategist for LeT since the early 2000s, while the second, Muhammad Hussein Gill, is an LeT founder and its chief financial officer.
Both were labeled "specially designated global terrorists," freezing any assets they might have in US jurisdiction and banning Americans from any transactions with the two.
"We will continue to target LeT's financial foundation to disrupt and impede its violent activities," said David Cohen, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
LeT, already officially named a "foreign terrorist organisation" by the US government, has been blamed for attacks on India and Indian forces in the Indian Kashmir region since the early 1990s.
It also was blamed for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that left 166 people dead. The group has denied responsibility.
More recently, LeT was blamed for an attack last month on an Indian diplomatic mission in Herat, Afghanistan that left two policemen wounded. But the group subsequently denied any involvement in that attack.
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Does US think that by blacklisting the such these types of groups and their leaders the war against the US,US' interests and its allies shall stop then it can never happen because they collect funds thru different ways not only on the name of Jihad and most of the muslims support them in the different means and manifestation the US can never imagine and blacklisting can never do any thing of them.Blacklisting is just the US' time passing activities but nothing more.Keep daydreaming and stargazing US because your act of blacklisting them can never stop war against you and your allies.......
This is sort of weird. Most terrorist organizations take pride in killing innocent people. I doubt it is a terrorist organization because it would say itself with great that it is one - if it was one. I may be wrong though.
"We believe in humanity and peace" joke of the day. No matter what the globe says they are heroes in their country. What's surprising neigbhours blame us for attacking them from afganistan. But in reality its indian mission and consulates being attacked, killed and kidnapped from time to time by such organistion having political support.