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The US state department on Thursday named al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent AQIS a foreign terrorist organisation and designated its leader, India-born Asim Umar, a specially designated global terrorist . A figure depicting al Qaeda also spelt Al-Qaida pictured in the western German city of Duesseldorf. AFP File Photo These designations prohibit American citizens from dealing with both the group and its leader 鈥?usually for donations 鈥?and lead to for stanley cup feiture of property and assets held by them in the US. Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri announced the formation of AQIS in 2014. In a 55-minute video launching the group, Zawahiri had said it would launch jihadist activities in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Umar is formerly of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which too has been designated a foreign terrorist organisation. The 38-year-old was born as Sana-ul-Haq at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh between 1974 and 1976, and graduated from the Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband in 1991. Umar later travelled to Pakistan, where he studied at the Darul Uloom Haqqania in Nowshera, stanley cup a seminary dubbed as the university of jihad because it has produced many militant commanders. The state department said in the annou stanley cup ncement, AQIS claimed responsibility for the September 6, 2014 attack on a naval dockyard in Karachi, in which militants attempted to hijack a Pakistani Navy frigate. The attack left a Pakistani officer and three attackers dead, while seven sailors were wounded as the militants Cczc Google to remove European titles from digital books deal
The United States on Saturday said it was disappointed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf s declaration of emergency rule and called on him to stick to a pledge to hold free elections early next year. HT Image This action is very disappointing, White House National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. President Musharraf needs to stand by his pledges to have free and fair elections in January and step down as chief of army staff before retaking the presidential oath of office, Johndroe added. Musharraf imposed emergency rule on Saturday in a bid yeezy to reassert his flagging authority against challenges from Islamist militants, a hostile judiciary and political rivals. All parties involved should move along the democratic path peacefully and quickly, Johndroe said. Earlier, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while on a visit to Turkey, said she was deeply disturbed by Musharraf s declaration of emergency rule, calling it a step backward for democracy. The US has made very clear that it does not support extra-constitutional measures as they would take Pakistan aw yeezy ay from the path of democracy and civilian rule, Rice told reporters as she was taking off from Turkey. We will be urging the commitment to hold free and fair elections be kept and we will be ur stanley cups ging calm on all parties, she said. Nuclear-armed Pakistan s internal security has deteriorated sharply in the past few months with a wave of suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda-inspired m