On October 27, Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) released the list of 18 individuals as terrorists under the amended Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), reports The Indian Express. The designated 18 individuals belong to terrorists’ groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Indian Mujahideen (IM) and members of the Dawood Ibrahim gang. In its statement UMHA stated that in order to strengthen national security and its policy of zero tolerance to terrorism, the present Government “has declared 18 more individuals as designated terrorists, under the provisions of the UAPA Act 1967 (as amended in 2019) and included their names in the Fourth Schedule of the said Act”. The list of designated terrorists includes key 26/11 conspirators -- Sajid Mir and Yusuf Muzammil alias Muzammil Butt; JeM leaders-Ibrahim Athar and Yusuf Azhar; JeM chief Masood Azhar’s brother Rauf Asghar, who is the key conspirator in Parliament Attack, Pathankot Airbase attack and the Pulwama CRPF convoy attack cases; Indian Mujahideen founders- Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal; HuM chief Syed Salauddin and Dawood’s close aides- Chhota Shakeel and Anees Shaikh apart from 1993 blasts accused Tiger Memon among others. Among the list Abdur Rehman Makki, brother-in-law of LeT chief Hafiz Saeed and head of LeT’s political affairs, Shahid Mehmood alias Shahid Mehmood Rehmatullah, the Pakistan-based deputy chief of proscribed organisation Falah-i-lnsaniyat Foundation (FIF), a front of the LeT, Farhatullah Ghori alias Abu Sufiyan, accused of involvement in the 2002 Akshardham temple attack case, Shahid Latif, alias Chota Shahid Bhai, the Pakistan-based ‘commander’ of JeM’s Sialkot sector and Ghulam Nabi Khan and Zafar Hussain Bhat of HuM.