Islamabad - A Pakistani man listed as a terrorist by The United Nations Security Council on Thursday died six years ago, according to media reports Thursday.

Haji Mohammad Ashraf's name was one of four included in a list released by the Security Council Wednesday. People on the list will be subject to UN sanctions for links to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is suspected in last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

According to a Security Council press release, Ashraf was the chief of finance of LeT.

United Nations, Dec 11: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has reportedly banned the political wing of the banned militant organization Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT), the Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

The Security Council has also declared it a terrorist organization.

A committee of the UN Security Council placed financial sanctions on four members of the LeT, as well as the charitable organization that Indian and U. S. officials say serves as the Lashkar''s financial front, according to the U. N.

The four members are Hafiz Saeed, the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba; Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, its chief of operations; and two finance officials, Haji Mohammad Ashraf and Mahmoud Ahmed Bahaziq.

United Nations, Dec. 11: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has accepted an honorary United Nations prize conferred on his slain mother and former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

The 2008 United Nations Human Rights award was given to Bhutto for her services to poor human beings and in recognition of her courageous struggle for restoring democracy in Pakistan, The News reports.

Benazir Bhutto was among seven international personalities who were conferred with the honour this year.

United Nations, Dec. 11: A U. N. Security Council panel has designated four men linked to the Mumbai attacks as terrorists subject to sanctions.

According to The News, the four men are believed to hold leadership positions in the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba that has been accused of orchestrating last month''s attacks in Mumbai.

The named terrorists are Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar''s operations chief; Muhammad Saeed, the group''s leader; Haji Muhammad Ashraf, its chief of finance; and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, a financier with the group.

Washington - US President George W Bush said Wednesday he was frustrated by the slow pace of the United Nations in building a peacekeeping force to halt the violence in Sudan's Darfur region.

"The pace of action out of the United Nations is too slow," Bush said after meeting a leading human rights activist for Darfur, Halima Bashir.

Geneva - Colombia's Vice President Francisco Calderon defended his country's human rights record on Wednesday, saying crackdowns on drug runners and paramilitary groups continued and "impunity is being reduced."

Speaking after he appeared for a periodic review of his country, under the auspices of the UN's Human Rights Council, Calderon also said he hoped the United States would enter into a free trade deal with Colombia.