GOI declares Masood Azhar, Hafiz, Lakhvi & Dawood Ibrahim as terrorists

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New Delhi : Invoking the recent amendments in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the Central Government on September 4, 2019, declared fours persons: Maulana Masood Azhar : Chief, Founder and key leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad ; Hafiz Muhammad: Chief, founder and key leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamat-ud-Dawa ; Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi: Chief operation commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba and one of its founder members; and Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar: who runs an international underworld crime syndicate and is involved in acts of terror, as terrorists and added their names to Schedule 4 of the Act.

All of the foresaid persons are involved in terrorist attacks in India and have been designated as global terrorists under United Nations. Earlier when terrorist organisations were banned, the individuals associated with it simply changed names and continued to carry out terrorist activities, according to a PIB release.