The Government of the United States has added Pakistan Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah a.k.a. Mullah Fazlullah to to its official terrorism list in the wake of him claiming that he was behind the December 16, 2014 massacre of 150 people, including 134 children at an army-run school in Peshawar.
Mullah Fazlullah has been named a specially designated global terrorist, a label meant to target terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism.
The designation makes it a crime for US citizens to engage in transactions with
Mullah Fazlullah. It also allows the US government to seize any of his property or interests that are in the United States, including those under the control of US citizens.
The United States designated the Pakistan Taliban a terrorist group in 2010.
The State Department said that before becoming the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Fazlullah claimed to be behind the killing of Pakistani Army General Sanaullah Niazi in 2013, and that he had ordered the 2012 assassination attempt on Pakistan schoolgirl and education activist Malala Yousafzai, who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize.
