The United States has placed a Pakistani political group on its list of foreign terrorist organizations, saying it was merely an alias for a militant group blamed for a deadly 2008 attack on the Indian port city of Mumbai.
The US State Department said in a statement on Tuesday that the Milli Muslim League (MML) had been added to the Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT)’s designations as a terrorist group.
“These designations seek to deny LeT the resources it needs to plan and carry out further terrorist attacks,” the statement read
“Make no mistake: whatever LeT chooses to call itself, it remains a violent terrorist group. The United States supports all efforts to ensure that LeT does not have a political voice until it gives up violence as a tool of influence,” it added.
The Milli Muslim League is controlled by Hafiz Saeed, who has a $10 million US bounty on his head.
Saeed is the founder of LeT which is blamed by the US and India for a four-day…