The SDGT label allows the U.S. to block financial assets linked to the group and its members, while the FTO designation restricts travel and imposes additional legal and financial penalties. Transfers of material support to the group also become prosecutable offenses under U.S. law.

The United States Department of State on Thursday designated The Resistance Front (TRF), a front group of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the group behind the April 22

The US on July 17 designated The Resistance Front (TRF) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), citing its role in the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists in Kashmir on April 22.