Hizbul Mujahideen labelled a ‘terror organization’

The U.S. on Wednesday precise militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen as a “foreign terrorist business enterprise”, almost months after maintaining the organization’s chief Syed Salahuddin as a global terrorist. The designation, which slaps a sequence of U.S. sanctions at the outfit, came in opposition to the backdrop of an upsurge in terror sports via the militant institution in Kashmir in latest months.

“These designations are trying to find to deny Hizbul Mujahideen the assets it wishes to perform terrorist assaults,” the state branch said in a statement.

All of Hizbul Mujahideen’s assets and pastimes challenge to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and those in the U.S. are normally prohibited from conducting any transactions with the group.

The choice marks a extreme blow to Pakistan which has been projecting the militant institution as a voice of the Kashmiri humans.

Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa and former top Minister Nawaz Sharif have both repeatedly praised the militant group’s slain commander Burhan Wani who turned into killed in July remaining year in an encounter in Kashmir.