{"id":14116,"date":"2017-08-17T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2017-08-17T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:58:07","slug":"us-branded-kashmirs-hizbul-mujahideen-as-terrorist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14116","title":{"rendered":"US branded Kashmir&#8217;s Hizbul Mujahideen as &#8216;terrorist&#8217; group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON 17 Aug 17 (TNS):<\/strong> In yet another move considered to be biased and appeasing India Donald Trumps United States added the Kashmiri separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen to its blacklist of terrorist organisations on Wednesday, amidst continued protests against Indian oppression in the region.<\/p>\n<p>US authorities had already designated the group&#8217;s leader, Syed Salahuddin, a \u201cglobal terrorist\u201d, but the overwhelming support by Kashmiri people to the freedom struggle against India has not let US ban on him to have any effect\u00a0 as he and his comrades enjoy much support of masses than before.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department designation bans US citizens and residents from dealing with the group and any assets found to belong to the Hizbul Mujahideen in areas under US jurisdiction will be frozen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday&#8217;s action notifies the US public and the international community that Hizbul Mujahideen is a terrorist organisation,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrorism designations expose and isolate organisations and individuals, and deny them access to the US financial system. Moreover, designations can assist the law enforcement activities of US agencies and other governments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US designation comes in the week that both India and Pakistan mark 70 years of independence from the British Empire \u2014 and the start of a bitter rivalry and decades of conflict over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1989, rebel groups have fought in India-held Kashmir, demanding independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistan, and tens of thousands, mostly civilians, have been killed by Indian Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON 17 Aug 17 (TNS): In yet another move considered to be biased and appeasing India Donald Trumps United States added the Kashmiri separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen to its blacklist of terrorist organisations on Wednesday, amidst continued protests against Indian oppression in the region. US authorities had already designated the group&#8217;s leader, Syed Salahuddin, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[733],"class_list":["post-14116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14118,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions\/14118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}