India on Wednesday said it welcomes the United States government’s decision to designate a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant and two financial facilitators as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The militant was identified as Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil, a senior commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba who carried out attacks in India.

“India welcomes the announcements made on Tuesday by the US Departments of State and Treasury in which three Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists and terror financiers have been named as Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.

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“The announcement vindicates India’s consistent stand that internationally designated terrorist groups and individuals, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and its front, the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, continue to operate from and raise financial resources with impunity in Pakistan, and use territories under its control for carrying out cross-border terrorism in India and elsewhere in South Asia,” Kumar said. “The latest designations also call into question Pakistan’s sincerity in taking effective action against such terrorist elements.”

Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil, also known as Danish Ahmad, has been a close associate of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. He was the operational leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s attacks in India between 1997 and 2001 and the group’s divisional commander for the Jammu region in 2016. He is still a senior commander of the group. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated Hameed ul Hassan and Abdul Jabbar as global terrorists for facilitating funding to the extremist group.

The move came just weeks after the US conveyed to Pakistan its concern about the participation of individuals affiliated to the Lashkar-e-Taiba in the July 25 general elections.