The United States said Tuesday it was mulling whether to blacklist Pakistan's Taliban as a foreign terrorist organisation after it was implicated in the failed Times Square bombing. The State Department designation would freeze any US assets of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), ban Americans from funding or assisting the group and bar its members from entering the United States.
"We are considering the question of designating the Pakistani Taliban," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters. "There is an intentionally deliberate process that we go through. And any group that is to be designated must meet very specific legal criteria," he said.
A group of US senators, meanwhile, called for Pakistan's Taliban to be blacklisted. "This group poses an existential threat to the safety of not only our soldiers fighting abroad but also Americans here at home," Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat of New York, told a news conference.
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