The U.S. government designated the Resistance Front, considered an offshoot of the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a "foreign terrorist organization" over the April 22 Islamist militant attack in Indian Kashmir that killed 26 men,

The SDGT label allows the U.S. to block financial assets linked to the group and its members, while the FTO designation restricts travel and imposes additional legal and financial penalties. Transfers of material support to the group also become prosecutable offenses under U.S. law.

The United States on Thursday designated the group behind the April Pahalgam attack in India, which killed 26 people, as a terrorist organization. In a statement, India's Ministry of External Affairs called "the designation of TRF is a timely and important step reflecting the deep cooperation between India and the United States on counter-terrorism,