US blacklists two leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba

The US Treasury Department said on Wednesday it was blacklisting two officials of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. The move means that US citizens will be prohibited from having any dealings with Zafar Iqbal or Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi and any of their assets found in the United States will be frozen, the department said.
The United States has designated LeT as a "foreign terrorist organisation." Pakistan banned it in 2002, but critics say it long operated openly under different names. The Treasury Department said Iqbal was a leader and co-founder of LeT and was in charge of its finance department while Bhuttavi had helped prepare operatives for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
"Over the past 20 years, Iqbal and Bhuttavi have been responsible for fundraising, recruitment and indoctrination of operatives," said David Cohen, Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.