Undated: In a joint crackdown on the Pakistan based Harakat-ul Jihad Islami or HuJI, as it’s more commonly known, the United States and the UN on Saturday declared it to be foreign terrorist organisation and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

They also slapped sanctions on its chief Ilyas Kashmiri, who India wants access to for his role in planning 26/11.

This freezes any assets Kashmiri has under US jurisdiction and prohibits American citizens from engaging in any transactions with him.

India believes HUJI and Kashmiri were also involved in the attack on a mosque in Hyderabad in 2007 that killed 16 people and the March 2007 Varanasi terrorist attacks that killed at least 25 people and left another 100 injured.

BDST: 0859 HRS, AUGUST 07, 2010