WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Thursday designated as globalterrorists six individuals accused of supporting the Taliban and Haqqaninetwork in Afghanistan. The administration stressed their links to Pakistan.

Among them are senior members of the former Taliban government inAfghanistan, including former central bank governor Abdul Samad Sani.

The six individuals, said to have been part of Taliban leadership bodiesin Pakistan, are alleged to have provided financing and weapons formilitants involved in attacks on US-led coalition forces.

President Trump’s policy, unveiled last summer, is intended to turn aroundthe 17-year war in Afghanistan by boosting the US military’s help to Afghangovernment forces and by pressuring Pakistan to cooperate.

“The Pakistan government must work with us to deny the Taliban and theHaqqani network sanctuary and to aggressively target terroristfundraising,” Mr. Mandelker, the undersecretary for terrorism and financialintelligence, said in a statement.

The blacklisted individuals include: Abdul Qadeer Basir Abdul Baseer, saidto have led the finance commission of the Taliban leadership Shura inPeshawar. He is alleged to have provided tens of thousands of dollars forTaliban attacks in Afghanistan’s Kunar province last fall.

One notable name on the list is that of Hafiz Mohammed Popalzai, said tohave served for several years on the Taliban finance commission and been incharge of the group’s finances for southern and western Afghanistan.

He is alleged to have passed on 10 million euros paid to the Taliban forthe release of hostages in mid-2011 to the finance commission’s leader inQuetta.