TERRORIST FINANCE: LET AMENDMENT - EMBASSY

S E C R E T ISLAMABAD 005357

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/30/2016
TAGS: PK PREL PTER KTFN UN
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: LET AMENDMENT - EMBASSY
UPDATES GOP ON DESIGNATION TIMELINE

REF: A. A. STATE 46628


B. B. STATE 50397

C. C. ISLAMABAD

Classified By: DCM Peter W. Bodde, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (U) This message contains action requests; please see
Para. 5.

2 (S) Post has had several opportunities in the past week to
update the Government of Pakistan (GOP) on the USG intention
to request that the UN 1267 Committee amend the designation
of Lashkar-e-Tayyba (LET) to include Jammat-ud-Dawa (JUD) and
its various aliases:

-- On March 24, DCM reaffirmed the U.S. decision to request
the 1267 Committee include JUD in the LET designation in his
meeting with MFA UN Director General Tasneem Aslam (Ref C);

-- On March 29, poloff advised MFA UN Director Imran Ahmad
Siddiqui of the timeline for pre-notification and submission
of the amendment request to the 1267 Committee (per Ref A and
B);

-- On March 29, Ambassador reviewed the pre-notification and
amendment request timeline with Foreign Secretary Mohammed
Riaz Khan and solicited Pakistan's support and full
cooperation on implementing any 1267 Committee sanctions
against JUD and all other designated organizations and
individuals, (per Ref A and B); and

-- On March 30, DCM reviewed the pre-notification and
designation timeline during his introductory call on MFA
Additional Secretary (Americas) Shahid Kamal and requested
the GOP's support and vigorous implementation of all 1267
Committee terror finance sanctions (per Ref A and B).


3. (S) The GOP has not specifically agreed or refused to
support the request to amend the LET designation. (Note:
Most GOP officials appeared to view the amendment to include
JuD as inevitable. End note.) MFA officials have, however,
consistently affirmed the GOP's commitment to honor its
international obligation to implement and enforce 1267
Committee sanctions against designated individuals and
organizations.


4. (S) As reported in Ref C, the MFA has formally requested
that the U.S. provide specific information linking designated
organizations (Al Rashid Trust, Al Akhtar Trust, JUD) to
terrorist or terrorism finance activities. This request,
first raised by Tasneem Aslam on March 24, was repeated in
post's MFA meetings on March 29.


5. (S) Action Requests:

-- Post requests clarification soonest from Department as to
(a) whether it can share the Ref B Background Paper (SBU) and
List of JUD Aliases (SBU) with the GOP; (b) whether there is
additional information that can be shared with the GOP in
support of the USG request to include JUD in the 1267
Committee's designation of LET.

-- Post requests Department advise soonest (a) what
information was made available to the GOP by the USG or the
UN at the time of the Al Rashid Trust and Al Akhtar Trust
1267 Committee designations; (b) whether the GOP could
presently access the information presented in support of the
Al Rashid and Al Ahktar designations through UN channels; (c)
if not available through UN channels, could the USG share the
information presented to the 1267 Committee with the GOP; and
(d) whether the Department or interagency has additional
information that could be made available to the GOP on these
two designees.



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