UN freezes assets of 152 Taliban officials
The US has asked its 189 UN member states to freeze the assets of 152 officials from the Afghani Taliban movement.
The list which falls in 11 page and circulated on Wednesday by the UN security council sanctions committee adds 127 names of persons, groups and projects that are linked to Taliban or Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaida organization Bin Laden leads.
On top of this list is the spiritual leader of the Taliban movement al-Malla Muhammad Omar, the prime minister al-Malla Muhammad Rabbani and also all members of Taliban representing mission in Pakistan and the officials of the Taliban's consulates in the Pakistani cities.
The UN list includes names of persons and groups mentioned actually in the list put by the US following the attacks of September 11 in its attempt to prevent financing the Bin Laden's organization.
The list also includes al- Barakat group which takes Somalia as a headquarters and has branches in Europe and northern American which the US has accused of maintaining co-operation with al-Qaida, besides al-Wafaa humanitarian organization which has branches in several Asian states.
Among the business projects stated in the list are the bank accounts for Iriana company of the airlines in New Delhi city bank in India and the Afghani Agricultural development bank in Britain.
