Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States has added Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, an Islamic charity group, which was the key aid provider to hundreds and thousands of flood-displaced people this year, to its terrorist black list over its al-Qaeda links.

There were speculations that the notorious Jihadi group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is blamed for 2008 deadly Mumbai attacks, was using the charity, which also runs ambulances’ fleet across Pakistan, as its front.

Announcing it on the blacklist, State Department’s coordinator for counter-terrorism, Daniel Benjamin said, “LeT has attempted to use Falah-e-Insaniyat as a way to evade scrutiny. This designation will help put to an end to that attempted evasion.”

Benjamin added that the group’s leader Hafiz Abdur Rauf along with two other LeT-linked men Mian Abdullah and Mohammad Naushad Alam Khan were also named on the list of “specially designated global terrorists”.

Meanwhile, the Treasury Department imposed financial sanctions on the foundation’s head to stop the charity from fuelling money to the LeT terror group. Notably, Islamic charities were the first ones to come to rescue and aid hundreds of people with food, shelter and medical care in this year’s devastating floods.

However, the charity group’s leaders rejected the U.S. claims of acting as a front for any terror organization.

“We are just a welfare organization,” said Mian Adil, the Vice President of Falah-e-Insaniat, earlier this year.

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