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UN and EU add Taliban group to ISIL and Al-Qaida list
The UN has added the Tariq Gidar Group, a splinter group of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions list. As a result, the group is subject to an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo under Security Resolution 2368 (2017). See UN Press Release.
On 27 March, the EU implemented this listing, see Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/507.
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Maya Lester QC is a senior barrister (Queen’s Counsel) at Brick Court Chambers with a wide-ranging practice in public law, European law, competition law, international law, human rights & civil liberties. She has a particular expertise in sanctions. The legal directories say she is the...
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