{"id":286060,"date":"2018-04-03T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286060"},"modified":"2018-04-03T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:38:24","slug":"us-designates-pakistan-based-mml-7-top-officials-as-global-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-designates-pakistan-based-mml-7-top-officials-as-global-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"US designates Pakistan based MML, 7 top officials as global terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/images-7.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-286061 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/images-7-300x172.jpeg\" alt=\"images (7)\" width=\"382\" height=\"219\" data-id=\"286061\" \/><\/a>In another big attempt to control terrorism in the world, the United States has designated Pakistan based terror organizations, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Milli Muslim League (MML) and seven of its top officials, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists on April 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">US Department press release states, &#8220;The Department of State has amended the designation of Pakistan-based terrorist organization LeT, to include the aliases MML and Tehreek-e- Azadi-e Kashmir (TAJK). The aliases have been added to LeT&#8217;s designations as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under Executive Order 13224.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">US decision is a major setback to Hafiz Saeed, the founder of MML. He was even planning to contest 2018 elections. US government official has said \u201c(US) treasury is targeting the MML and a group of seven global terrorists who are complicit in LeT\u2019s attempts to undermine Pakistan\u2019s political process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The seven designated officials are MML president Saifullah Khalid, he was designated for acting on behalf of LeT; MML vice president Muzammil Iqbal Hashimi, he was also designated for acting on behalf of LeT; MML joint secretary Muhammad Harris Dar, designated as he was former officer in LeT\u2019s student wing; MML information secretary Tabish Qayyum, he was designated for serving as the head of LeT\u2019s media cell; MML broadcast and publications secretary Faisal Nadeem, MML general secretary Fayyaz Ahmad and MML finance secretary and spokesperson Muhammad Ehsan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another big attempt to control terrorism in the world, the United States has designated Pakistan based terror organizations, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Milli Muslim League (MML) and seven of its top officials, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists on April 2. US Department press release states, &#8220;The Department of State has amended the designation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":286061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,53],"tags":[1144,1145,1146,1147,1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}