The UN Security Councils updated list of terrorists and militant groups has 139 entries from Pakistan alone, including outfits like Hafeez Saeed’s Lashkar-e-Taiba, according to a media report.
The list, headed by Osama bin Laden’s heir apparent Ayman al-Zawahiri, identifies all those individuals who have lived in Pakistan, operated from there or have been associated with groups that used Pakistani territory for carrying out their operations, Dawn News reported.
The LeT is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
The list also includes Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, an Indian national who, according to the UN Security Council, has held several Pakistani passports issued in Rawalpindi and Karachi, the report said.
The UN claims that he owns a palatial bungalow in the hilly area of Noorabad, Karachi, it added.
Kaskar, wanted in India as the accused mastermind of the Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993 and accused of crimes such as match-fixing and extortion, accrued a vast property portfolio across the Midlands and south-east in the UK as well as India, the UAE, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus and Australia
Haji Mohammed YahyaMujahid, LeTs media contact, and Hafiz Saeeds deputies, Abdul Salaam and Zafar Iqbal, are also listed. Like Hafiz Saeed, they are all wanted by the Interpol.
The LeT is listed with its various aliases, such as al-Mansoorian, Paasban-i-Kashmir, Paasban-i-Ahle Hadith, JamaatudDawa and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation, the report said.
The UN data claims that first person on the list Ayman al-Zawahiri is still hiding somewhere in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, the report said. Several of his lieutenants are also on the list who, the UN believes, are hiding with him.
More than a dozen suspected terrorists are listed in the same category, arrested in Pakistan and handed over to the US authorities. Some of them had Pakistani passport, issued by various Pakistani missions in the Middle East and renewed in Pakistan.