The United States and Saudi Arabia on Thursday joined hands to sanction Pakistani individuals and terrorist entities, including lashkar-e-Tayyeba (leT), hours ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Riyadh.
Thursday’s action targeted James Alexander Mclintock and his Pakistan-based Al-Rahmah Welfare Organization, which the Treasury Department said is a front organisation that provides money for al-Qaeda, the Taliban, leT and other Afghan extremists groups under the guide of helping orphans. “As of early 2013, Mclintock recruited Afghan insurgents to obtain photos of children, Afghan identity documents and cell phone numbers to create falsified dossiers used to obtain donations,” Treasury said.
The department said Mclintock used his organisation to allegedly provide money to Afghan orphans while helping finance Taliban militant activities in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. Mclintock received about $1,80,000 from donors in Britain between April 2011 and April 2012 and also received money from charities in the Persian Gulf and the United Kingdom, Treasury said.
Mclintock also is suspected of smuggling cash to insurgents in Afghanistan and moving parts for improvised explosive devices between Pakistan and Afghanistan.