US state department has named Pakistani charity group JuD as a 'foreign terrorist organisation, a status that freezes any assets that it has under US jurisdiction. Jamaat Ud Dawa is human charity but it is widely seen by Us as a front organization of Lashkare Tayaba, a Pakistani-based group accused of orchestrating of attacks in India, including 2008 Mambai attacks that killed 166 people. The designation comes as NATO troops in Afghanistan are drawing down and regional rivals Pakistan and India are competing with each other for influence with Kabul. Some fear the competition may spill into open conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations, who have fought three wars since independence.
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