US Mulls Putting Pakistan Taliban on Terrorism List

The US State Department said on Tuesday it was looking into putting the Pakistani Taliban, the group tied to the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square, on the US list of “foreign terrorist” groups.

Adding the Pakistani Taliban to the list would trigger punitive measures such as freezing assets tied to the group, barring foreign nationals with links to it from entering the United States and making it a crime to give any material help.

“It is something we are considering in light of what happened, and obviously the investigation will yield information that might give us greater clarity,” State Department spokesman PJ Crowley told reporters.