The United Nations on Friday slapped sanctions on the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan - thought to be behind last year's failed bombing attempt on New York's Times Square - for having links with al Qaeda. The UN Security Council said its sanctions committee dealing with al Qaeda had imposed an assets freeze as well as a travel ban and arms embargo on the Pakistani group, also known by its Urdu name of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.
A council statement said the committee, which maintains a list of sanctioned groups and individuals, had also imposed the same measures on the Caucasus Emirate organisation, an Islamist insurgent group based in Russia's North Caucasus.