3.5. Groups designated as terrorist organisations

Groups proscribed by Pakistan’s federal government (the MoI) up to October 2024 are, amongst others, LeJ (proscribed in 2001), LeT (2002), SSP (2002), JeM (2002), Al-Qaeda (2003), BLA (2006), TTP (2008), BLF (2010), JuA (2016), HGB (2024), and the BLA’s Majeed Brigade (2024).485

Armed militant groups designed as ‘foreign terrorist organization’ by the US Department of State (USDOS) include the BLA/the Majeed Brigade,486 TTP, LeT, AQ and AQIS, the Haqqani Network, ISKP, ISPP, LeJ, the HuM, HM, JeM,487 and TRF.488 The BLA and its Majeed Brigade489 and TRF are additionally designated by the USDOS as ‘specially designated global terrorists’ (SDGTs),490 along with JuA.491 The UN Security Council’s list of entities subject to its sanctions includes TTP, JuA, LeT, AQ, ISKP, the Haqqani Network, LeJ, JeM, and HuM.492

  • 485

    Pakistan, NACTA, 82 Organizations Proscribed by Ministry of Interior u/s 11-B-(1) r/w Schedule-I, ATA 1997, 6 October 2024, url

  • 486

    USDOS, Terrorist Designation of The Majeed Brigade, 11 August 2025, url

  • 487

    US, CIA, World Factbook – Terrorist Organizations, n.d., url

  • 488

    USDOS, Terrorist Designation of The Resistance Front, 17 July 2025, url; US, CIA, World Factbook – Pakistan, last updated 30 December 2025, archived page from 4 February 2026, url

  • 489

    USDOS, Terrorist Designation of The Majeed Brigade, 11 August 2025, url

  • 490

    USDOS, Terrorist Designation of The Resistance Front, 17 July 2025, url

  • 491

    USDOS, State Department Terrorist Designations of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Mohamed Abrini, 3 August 2016, url

  • 492

    UN Security Council, United Nations Security Council Consolidated List, n.d., url