Sunday, April 24 2005 19:06 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The US has put Al-Mansurian, a shadow outfit of Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT), which is carrying out terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, on the list of Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

The name of Al-Mansurian was put on the list of FTO's recently by the US State Treasury Department.

This is seen as a part of the US's continued efforts after the September 11 attack. The Treasury Department has put all the alias' of the LeT in the list.

The list released by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also includes other names of the Lashker which were announced by the terrorist group after it was banned by the US in December 2001 and by Pakistan in January 2002.

Pasban-e-Ahle-Hadit, Pasban-e-Ahlehadis, Army of Pure, The Army of Pure and Righteous have also been included in the FTO list and all of them are shadow outfits of Lashker terrorist outfit.

The list has almost all permutation and combination of the spelling of these outfits in the FTO list.

Of this, Al-Mansurian or Al-Mansoorian is the only terrorist outfit which is active in Jammu and Kashmir and has carried out various actions resulting in the death of innocent civilians while shadow outfits like Pasban-e-Alhadis are the ideological sects of the outfit and mainly active in Iraq.