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The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba on Saturday said that the United States would not be able to "cow down" its fighter by banning the group.
"The mujahideens do not care for any US embargo," its leader Hafeez Mohammed Saeed said.
"It (the ban) would increase spirit and enthusiasm among them to intensify the jihad against the infidels," he was quoted as saying by Lashkar's official Web site.
The Lashkar, along with another Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, the Jaish-e-Mohammed, figured in the US list of terrorist organisations.
Saeed also said that the Jewish lobby feared Pakistan's nuclear capability. "They (the Jews) want to spread the fear of Pakistan's nuclear capability so that they can destroy its nuclear installations," he said.
The Pakistan government on Saturday declined to react to the US decision to ban the groups saying it had not yet received any communication in this regard.
The Lashkar, presently headed by Saeed, a professor of Islamic studies in Lahore Engineering College, was the offshoot of Markaz Dawa Val Irshad, which was formed in 1983 in Pakistan to carry out militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
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