China Wednesday put a maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to blacklist Pakistan-based militant Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, within the second such transfer inside two days.
Hafiz Talha Saeed, 46, is a key chief of the dreaded terrorist group LeT and the son of 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
In April this yr, he had been declared a terrorist by the Indian authorities.
It is learnt that China positioned the maintain on the proposal so as to add Hafiz Talah Saeed underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.
It is the second time in lower than two days that Beijing put a maintain on the bid submitted by India and the US to designate a Pakistan-based terrorist as a worldwide terrorist.
India’s cost in opposition to Saeed
In a notification, India’s Home Ministry had mentioned that Hafiz Talha Saeed has been actively concerned in recruitment, fund assortment, and planning and executing assaults by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in India and Indian pursuits in Afghanistan.
He has additionally been actively visiting numerous LeT centres throughout Pakistan, and through his sermons propagating for jihad in opposition to India, Israel, the United States of America and Indian pursuits in different western international locations, it had acknowledged.
Hafiz Talha Saeed is a senior chief of the LeT and is the pinnacle of the cleric wing of the terrorist organisation.
China on Tuesday put a maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to record Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Shahid Mahmood as a worldwide terrorist.
Beijing positioned a maintain on the proposal by India and the US to designate Mahmood, 42, as a worldwide terrorist underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.
US’ findings
The US Department of Treasury had designated Mahmood in addition to one other LeT chief Muhammad Sarwar in December 2016 as a part of the motion “to disrupt LeT’s fundraising and support networks.” According to data on the US Department of the Treasury’s web site, Mahmood “has been a longstanding senior LeT member based mostly in Karachi, Pakistan, and has been affiliated with the group since at the least 2007.
As early as June 2015 via at the least June 2016, Mahmood served because the vice chairman of Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a humanitarian and fundraising arm of LeT.” In 2014, Mahmood was the chief of FIF in Karachi. In August 2013, Mahmood was recognized as a LeT publications wing member, the web site mentioned.
“Mahmood was previously part of LeT’s overseas operations team led by Sajjid Mir….Additionally, in August 2013, Mahmood was instructed to forge covert links with Islamic organizations in Bangladesh and Burma, and as of late 2011, Mahmood claimed that LeT’s primary concern should be attacking India and America,” the US Department of Treasury mentioned.
China in UN
This is the fifth time in 4 months that China has put a maintain on itemizing proposals to designate Pakistan-based terrorists underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee regime.
In June this yr, China put a maintain, on the final second, on a joint proposal by India and the US to blacklist Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki underneath the 1267 Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council. Makki is a US-designated terrorist and brother-in-law of Hafiz Saeed.
New Delhi and Washington had put in a joint proposal to designate Makki as a worldwide terrorist underneath the 1267 ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council however Beijing positioned a maintain on this proposal on the final minute.
Then in August, China once more put a maintain on a proposal by the US and India to blacklist Abdul Rauf Azhar, the senior chief of Pakistan-based terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM).
Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakistan, had been sanctioned by the US in December 2010. C The US Department of Treasury had in December 2010 designated “Abdul Rauf Azhar for acting for or on behalf of JEM.” The US mentioned as a senior chief of JeM, Abdul Rauf Azhar “has urged Pakistanis to have interaction in militant actions. He has served as JEM’s appearing chief in 2007, as one in every of JEM’s most senior commanders in India, and as JEM’s intelligence coordinator.
In 2008 Azhar was assigned to organise suicide assaults in India. He was additionally concerned with JEM’s political wing and has served as a JEM official concerned with coaching camps.” In September, Beijing put a maintain on a proposal moved on the United Nations by the US and co-supported by India to designate Lashkar-e-Tayyiba terrorist Sajid Mir, needed for his involvement within the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist assaults, as a worldwide terrorist.
Mir is one in every of India’s most needed terrorists and has a bounty of USD5 million positioned on his head by the US for his function within the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults.
In June this yr, he was jailed for over 15 years in a terror-financing case by an anti-terrorism courtroom in Pakistan, which is struggling to exit the gray record of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Pakistani authorities had up to now claimed Mir had died, however Western international locations remained unconvinced and demanded proof of his dying. This subject grew to become a serious sticking level in FATF’s evaluation of Pakistan’s progress on the motion plan late final yr.
Mir is a senior member of the Pakistan-based LeT and is needed for his involvement within the November 2008 terrorist assaults in Mumbai.
“Mir was LeT’s operations manager for the attacks, playing a leading role in their planning, preparation, and execution,” the US State Department has mentioned.
India’s stance
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned in his handle to the high-level UN General Assembly session in September had mentioned that “the United Nations responds to terrorism by sanctioning its perpetrators”.
S Jaishankar has mentioned that terrorism shouldn’t be used as a political software.
“Those who politicise the UNSC 1267 Sanctions regime, sometimes even to the extent of defending proclaimed terrorists, do so at their own peril. Believe me, they advance neither their own interests nor indeed their reputation,” he had mentioned.
Amid repeated holds on proposals to designate terrorists underneath the UN sanctions regime, Jaishankar had advised reporters right here final month that terrorism shouldn’t be used as a political software and the concept one thing is blocked with out assigning a purpose challenges widespread sense.
“We do believe that in any process, if any party is taking a decision, they need to be transparent about it. So the idea that something is blocked without assigning a reason, it sort of challenges common sense,” Jaishankar had mentioned in New York in response to a query by PTI on the problem of repeated holds and blocks on proposals to record terrorists underneath the UN sanctions regime.
Earlier additionally, China, an all-weather pal of Islamabad, has positioned holds and blocks on bids by India and its allies to record Pakistan-based terrorists.
In May 2019, India received an enormous diplomatic win on the UN when the worldwide physique designated Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist”, a decade after New Delhi had first approached the world physique on the problem.
A veto-wielding everlasting member of the UN Security Council, China was the only real hold-out within the 15-nation physique on the bid to blacklist Azhar, blocking makes an attempt by putting a “technical hold”.