India designates 23 individuals based in Pak as 'terrorists' under UAPA

The Union home ministry on Saturday designated 23 individuals based in Pakistan, linked to Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other organisations, as "terrorists" under the UAPA, a government order said. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967) empowers the central government to add the name of an individual as designated terrorist if it believes that the individual is involved in terrorism. Including the names of terrorists in the list will allow the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to block their finances, impose embargo on arms sales, and seize their assets.
Among those designated are Masood Ilyas Kashmiri, Mohammad Mussadiq, Mufti Muhammad Asghar Khan, Hafiz Abdul Shakoor, Abdullah Jehadi, Firdous Ahmad Bhat, Ghulam Fareed, Bilal Ahmad Mir, Abid Quyoom Lone, Nazir Ahmed Gujjar, Abdul Rauf, Ashfaq Ahmad, Hafiz Khalid Waleed, Maulana Saifullah Khalid, Mohammad Yaqoob, Molana Yousaf Taibi, Owais Farooz, Qari Yaqub Sheikh, Rana Iftikhar, Waseem Noor Jat, Mohammed Shaheed Faisal, Maulana Imdad Ullah Makki and Haroon Rashid Ganai. One of the notifications identified Masood Ilyas Kashmiri, also known by multiple aliases, as a senior functionary of Jaish-e-Mohammed, a terrorist organisation already listed under the First Schedule of the UAPA.
According to the notification, Masood Ilyas Kashmiri is based in Rawalkot in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and has been involved in recruiting youth for JeM, imparting terrorist training and facilitating the infiltration of terrorists into India. The notification stated that the Central Government believes Masood Ilyas Kashmiri is involved in terrorism and has therefore added his name to the Fourth Schedule of the UAPA.
The remaining 22 individuals were designated through separate notifications issued under the same provisions of the Act. According to the government, all are based in Pakistan and are linked to banned terrorist organisations, including JeM and LeT.
The current list of designated terrorists includes top names such as Hafiz Saeed, JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar, 26/11 Mumbai attacks co-mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and US-based Khalistani leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, among others. With the latest addition of 23 names, the list now includes 80 individuals designated as terrorists.