Washington, July 4, 2008: (Khadijah Shah reports) United States of America (USA) on Wednesday set more than a dozen Pakistan-based NGOs on its confirmation of fanatics' outfits, asserting they were shaped to hoist finances for two huddles previously expelled by the US government and the United Nations (UNO). The US Department of the Treasury recognized the two parent groups as Al-Rashid and Al-Akhtar Trust International and claimed that more than a dozen NGOs banned on Wednesday were "operating in an apparent effort to circumvent sanctions imposed by the United States and the United Nations." All these NGOs have now been added to the department's record of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. "We are very concerned about the nominated entities reconstituting themselves under new names in endeavor to circumvent sanctions and persist funneling money to terrorist activities," said Adam J. Szubin, Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Al Rashid Trust was designated a global terrorist outfit on Sept 23rd , 2001 and was added to the UN catalog of individuals and entities associated with Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda or the Taliban on April 24, 2002. As of mid-2007, Al Rashid Trust was operating beneath the name Al Amin Welfare Trust and about half a dozen other names listed by the US Treasury. Al Akhtar Trust International was designated a terrorist organization on Oct 14, 2003, and was added to the UN inventory on August 17, 2005. As of July 2007, Al Akhtar Trust International was using the name Pakistan Relief Foundation and several other names integrated in the US list. As of May 2007, Pakistan Relief Foundation has taken over all possessions of Al Akhtar Trust; its higher-ranking leaders had commenced functioning on behalf of Pakistan Relief Foundation. Assets these organizations hold under US jurisdiction are frozen and US persons are proscribed from engaging in transactions in property or interests in belongings blocked under the order.