JDQ has been responsible for various attacks, including the infamous 2010 kidnapping and death of British aid worker Linda Norgrove in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. The US State Department designated the Tariq Gidar Group (TGG) and Jama’at ul Dawa al-Qu’ran (JDQ) as Specially Designated Global Terrorists”. Two Pakistan-based Islamist groups with links to the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba and one of them blamed for the 2014 Peshawar school massacre were on Wednesday designated as global terrorist outfits by the US. Peshawar-based JDQ pledged allegiance to now-deceased Taliban emir Mullah Omar in 2010, and has long-standing ties to al-Qaeda and LeT, the State Department said. In addition to these attacks, the TGG is responsible for the 2010 kidnapping of a British journalist traveling to North Waziristan, Pakistan, and the 2008 kidnapping and beheading of Polish geologist Piotr Stanczak in Attock, Pakistan.

Source: Indian Express May 25, 2016 10:37 UTC