Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi today said that the US government's decision to declare Pakistan based Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin a global terrorist will help in choking his movements and financing.<br/><br/>Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function, Mr Mehrishi said, Salahuddin is a terrorist and he has now been declared so and this declaration by the US will help in impacting his movements and funding. <br/> <br/>The US yesterday designated Salahuddin a specially designated global terrorist, a move welcomed by India which said it underlines quite strongly that both the countries face<br/>threat of terrorism.<br/>Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said in Washington that the declaration was a strong signal coming out of the US administration that it is committed to ending terror in all<br/>its forms.<br/>The move by the US State Department came just hours before the first meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump at the White House.