The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist group, Noor Wali Mehsud, has been designated a global terrorist by the United Nations for participating in acts of financing, planning and perpetrating on behalf of and in support of entities associated with al-Qaida .
The UN Security Council's 1267 ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee added Mehsud, 42, to the ISIL (Daesh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List on Thursday, subjecting the Pakistani citizen to a freeze on assets, travel ban and arms embargo.
The Sanctions Committee said Mehsud was listed for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating or perpetrating acts or activities, in conjunction with, under the name, on behalf of or in support of" entities associated with Qaida.
In June 2018, Mehsud was appointed head of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, after the death of Maulana Fazlullah.
The TTP was blacklisted by the UN on July 29, 2011 for its association with al-Qaida.
"Under the leadership of Noor Wali, TTP has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly terrorist attacks across Pakistan, including an attack on Pakistani security forces in North Waziristan in July 2019 and a bomb attack on Pakistani soldiers in Khyber. Pakhtunkhwa in August 2019, "said the Sanctions Committee.
The group claimed responsibility for a bombing attempt in Times Square on May 1, 2010, and in April 2010 launched a multiple assault against the United States Consulate in Peshawar, killing at least six Pakistanis and injuring others. 20, the Additional Committee.
From NDTV News
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