UN Blacklists TTP Breakaway Group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar

AVA- Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group, has been added to the United Nations list of terrorist organizations.
 
The UN said Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has ties with Daesh and has bases in eastern Nangarhar region of Afghanistan as well as in the Mohmand tribal areas along the Durand Line.
 
By adding the name of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar to the list of terrorist groups, the bank accounts of this group will be frozen, and members of the group will be banned from traveling and the sale of weapons to this group is banned.
 
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is a splinter branch of the Pakistani Taliban, which broke away in 2014, and has recently been responsible for a series of attacks in Pakistan.
 
The Pakistani government banned the organization's activities last year following several deadly attacks that it claimed responsibility for.
 
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has not commented yet about the decision.