December 21, 2001	Friday	Shawwal 5, 1422

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WASHINGTON, Dec 20: In action designed to mark the first 100 days of the start of its “campaign against terrorism”, the United States on Thursday placed the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Ummah Tameer-i-nau, an organization linked to one of the detained scientists of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission on the list of individuals and organizations whose financial assets have been declared frozen.

The action against the Lashkar marks a move against an organization whose activities have not been directed against the US and comes shortly after India complained that Washington was not doing enough to move against militants in Kashmir.

The organization linked to a detained Pakistani scientist claimed that it carried out humanitarian activities within Afghanistan.

Announcing the new financial crackdown, President Bush characterized the attack on the Indian parliament as an assault on the “legislature of the world’s largest democracy”, and said it was only the most recent attack on the “institutions of Indian democracy”, recalling also the recent Sringar assembly incident.