US Blacklists Pakistani Terrorist Organisation

The United States Department of Justice added the Pakistani terrorist party (Tehrek-i-Taliban Pakistan) to its blacklist of terrorist organisations on Wednesday

The leader of the Tehrek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Hakimullah Mehsud is accused of alleged role in the murder of 7 CIA members in Afghanistan on Dec. 30 2009 at a US military base.

The US State Department also offered 5 million dollars reward for information leading to the location of Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Organisation.

"Hakimullah Mehsud, the self-proclaimed emir of the Pakistani Taliban, has been charged by criminal complaint for his alleged involvement in the murder of seven American citizens on December 30, 2009 at a US military base in Afghanistan," the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Wednesday.

The US government has also charged Mehsud for charges of alleged role in the murder of Americans and also the usage of weapons of mass destruction against US citizens abroad.

American officials said that the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) often used by the Taliban in road-side bomb blasts in Afghanistan, is often made up of Ammonium Nitrate and diesel fuel and is at the category of the weapons of mass destruction.

The addition of TTP to the US terrorist black list includes sanctions such as asset freeze, travel ban embargo and a ban providing material support to the group.

Blacklisted along with the TTP are Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba, accused of the deadly raids in the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, the Palestinian Hamas Party, Lebanon's Hezbullah, the Irish Republican Army and The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).