U.S. REDESIGNATES PAKISTANI TERRORIST GROUPS, LJ & LeT AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS

Highlights

• This move comes before the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting in February, where the status of Pakistan in the grey list would be discussed

• The Department of State said in a release that “The Department of State has amended the terrorist designations of Lashkar- i- Jhangvi (LJ) and ISIL Sinai Peninsula (ISIL-SP) to include additional aliases”

The United States on Saturd....