Washington: The US treasury has named the Global Relief Foundation (GRF) as an organisation that finances al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, including terror in Kashmir.

The Foundation has extensive ties with Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida and other terrorist organisations and their supporters, and fosters terror in Kashmir, undersecretary for Enforcement Jimmy Gurule has said.

The GRF has connections with known terrorist organizations and with known supporters of terror outfits, including shipment of material to a terrorist organisation operating in the Kashmir region and through financial transactions with a Texas- based charitable organisation, he alleged.

The US, Gurule said, submitted the group's name on October 18 to the UN sanctions committee for inclusion in its consolidated list of entities and individuals whose assets UN member states are obligated to freeze pursuant to two UN Security Council Resolutions 1267 and 1390.

A set of photographs and negatives discovered in 1997 in a trash dumpster outside of GRF's office in Illinois depict large shipping boxes displayed under a GRF banner.

The boxes were full of sophisticated communication equipment, including approximately 200 handheld radio transceivers, long-range radio antennas and portable power packs, valued at approximately $ 120,000, he added.

PTI