The United States has declared Pakistan-based Harkat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HuJI) as a foreign terrorist organisation and slapped sanctions on its commander Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri. US Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey said in Washington that HuJI has been involved in a series of terrorist activities in India, including the attack on a mosque in Hyderabad in 2007 that killed 16 people and the March 2007 Varanasi terrorist attacks that killed at least 25 people and left another 100 injured.Kashmiri’s name also cropped in 26/11 attacks case and he is believed to have been in close contact with David Headley, who has pleaded guilty to plotting the 26/11 attacks.Simultaneously, the UN also announced similar sanctions against HuJI and Kashmiri at its headquarters in New York.Levey said Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri was at the core of HuJI's efforts to plan and carry out attacks against US forces and their allies. He is responsible for creating a cadre of militants to act on behalf of HuJI and al-Qaeda.