new delhi using the recently amended provisions of the unlawful activities prevention act the government on wednesday notified four mostwanted terrorists based in pakistan lashkar e taiba chief hafiz mohammad saeed jaish e mohammad boss masood azhar let operations chief and 2611 conspirator zaki ur rehman lakhvi and 1993 mumbai blasts accused dawood ibrahim kaskar as individual terroristswhile lashkar e taiba and jaish e mohammad were already banned as terrorist outfits under uapa this is for the first time that underworld don dawood who is purportedly holed up in pakistan for past several years with due facilitation by isi has been designated as a terrorist under indian lawall the four blacklisted terror masterminds are already tagged as global terrorists under un security council resolution 1267 and also subjects of interpol red corner noticeuapa was amended only last month to allow the government to ban individual terrorists if it believes they are involved in terrorismnotifying names of the pakistanbased terror masterminds in fourth schedule to uapa brings indian terror blacklist in sync with the un list of designated terrorists this also conforms to fatf standards that require all member countries to ban those designated as global terrorists since the list is publicised all financial and other institutions can add these to their respective blacklists it serves as an excellent tool to prevent access of the designated individual terrorists to funding and other amenitieshome ministry sources said the individual terrorist tag would help the indian agencies with investigation prosecution and trial of the cases registered against the notified terroristslisting the grounds for notifying hafiz saeed as a terrorist the home ministry notification said he was involved in 2611 mumbai attacks red fort attack of 2000 rampur attack on crpf personnel in 2008 and the attack on a bsf convoy in udhampur in 2015 it added saeed was an accused in various cases being probed by nia including the jk terror funding case besides having been named in the chargesheet filed in david headley casenotifying azhar as a terrorist the home ministry said he had been declared proclaimed offender by the special judge pota new delhi as per the notification jaish under the patronage of azhar extensively undertakes recruitment drives for terrorist activities and his preaching wings regularly organise events to urge people to promote terrorism terror attacks in which he was involved include the pulwama attack on february 2019 pathankot airbase strike of 2016 and december 2001 parliament attackthe home ministry notification linked lakhvi lets chief operational commander and one of its founder members to 2611 terror attack red fort attack and rampur attack among others it added that he was an accused in various cases being investigated by nia that include let abu jundal case besides a chargesheet had been filed against him in headley caseon dawood ibrahim whose custody has repeatedly been sought from pakistan at various bilateral engagements the notification said he runs an international underworld crime syndicate and is involved in perpetrating acts of terror promoting