Question: Consider the following statements:
(1) The United Nations has designated Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group’s leader Noor Wali Mehsud, as a global terrorist.
(2) Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had claimed responsibility for an attempted bombing in Times Square on May 1, 2010.
Of the above correct statement/s is/are:
(a) Only 1
(b) Only 2
(c) Both 1&2
(d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
- The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group’s Noor Wali Mehsud has been designated as a global terrorist by the United Nations for participating in the financing, planning and perpetrating acts on behalf of and in support of entities associated with al-Qaida.
- The Pakistani national was added to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List by the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee, subjecting him to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
- Mehsud was named the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in June 2018, following the death of former TTP leader Maulana Fazlullah.
- The TTP was blacklisted by the UN on July 29, 2011 for its association with al-Qaida.
- Under Noor Wali’s leadership, TTP has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly terrorist attacks across Pakistan, including an attack targeting Pakistani security forces in North Waziristan in July 2019 and a bomb attack against Pakistani soldiers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in August 2019.
- The group had claimed responsibility for an attempted bombing in Times Square on May 1, 2010.
- In April 2010 it had launched a multi-pronged assault against the United States Consulate in Peshawar, killing at least six Pakistanis and wounding 20 others.
By-Amar Mani upadhyay
Links:
http://newsonair.com/News?title=UN-designates-Pakistan-Taliban-leader-Noor-Mehsud-as-global-terrorist&id=393994
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/united-nations-designates-tehrik-e-taliban-pakistan-noor-wali-mehsud-as-global-terrorist-2264222