The UN Security Council on Friday put the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on its international anti-terrorism sanctions list in a move highlighting the growing threat from the group, diplomats said. The adding of the TTP to the sanctions list also comes as the Security Council eases pressure on the Afghan Taliban in a bid to encourage it to join peace moves in Afghanistan. The TTP has been blamed for attacks that have left hundreds dead across the country, but also been linked to an attempted bombing in Times Square, New York last year. Britain’s UN ambassador Mark Lyall Grant welcomed the addition to the counter-terrorism list, a moved that has been backed by the Pakistani government. “It sends a powerful signal of the international community’s solidarity and resolve in the fight against the TTP and international terrorism,” Lyall Grant said in a statement.
