Founder of a self-declared Pakistani charity group, Hafiz Saeed, who is accused of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks has brushed off new US sanctions.
Speaking to the BBC, Hafiz Saeed said that the US was only targeting Jamaat-ud Dawa to win India's backing in Afghanistan.
Saeed said the US always took decisions based on Indian dictation and now it was imposing this new ban because it needed India's help in Afghanistan.
He added that he had nothing to do with the Mumbai attacks, and Pakistan's courts said all India's evidence against him was just propaganda.
The US says the self-proclaimed Pakistani charity organization is actually a front for militant group Lashkar-e Toiba and has offered 10million dollars (6m pounds) bounty for the arrest of Saeed.
Last week, Jamaat-ud Dawa was declared a "foreign terrorist organisation" by the US.
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