WASHINGTON, Nov 24: The United States on Wednesday added Pakistan's Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, a charity associated with a banned militant group, to its official list of blacklisted terror organisations.

The US State Department said Falah-e-Insaniyat (FeF) had been dubbed an 'alias' of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is already on the State Department's list of “designated foreign terrorist organisations”.

Daniel Benjamin, the State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, said the move “shows that the United States will not tolerate any support to this organisation.

“LeT has attempted to use FeF as a way to evade scrutiny. This designation will help put to an end to that attempted evasion,” Mr Benjamin said in a statement.

The official order also named FeF leader Hafiz Abdur Rauf and two other men associated with LeT, Mian Abdullah and Mohammad Naushad Alam Khan, to its list of “specially designated global terrorists”.

FeF is a name used in public by the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), initially set up as the humanitarian wing of the Pakistan-based LeT, which has been active in relief efforts for those hit by floods in Pakistan.—Reuters

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